Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Exciting New Images from The LROC Team.
08 Oct 2018
Get out your red/blue anaglyph glasses for a three-dimensional treat! This extreme closeup of the south side of 86-kilometer-diameter Tycho Crater shows melt flows and pools, small craters, sagging slopes that look like ripples, boulders, and, at the top, part of the crater rim. North is at the top. Image width is about 10 kilometers [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
04 Oct 2018
Copernicus crater central peak reveals the complexity of the lunar crust through distinct layering and patchy surface brightness. Image 3 km wide, M1261372886LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
11 Sep 2018
Spectacular view across the rim of Wallach crater (5700 meter diameter), acquired when LRO was 93 kilometers above the surface, M1236317761LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
06 Sep 2018
Part of the westernmost swirl feature in Mare Marginis. This closeup of the center of the anaglyph strip below highlights an area little more than five kilometers wide. Bright swirl areas appeared "painted on" the landscape. Part of NAC images M1113645293LR and M1113631085LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
21 Aug 2018
Oblique (very!) view of Einthoven cold spot crater, located at 109.91° E, 6.74° S. White rays and the crater's rocky rim and rugged interior wall are visible signs of youth. The cold spot anomaly surrounding the crater is another sign of youth. It extends far beyond the three-kilometer width of this image, but is invisible to human eyes. NAC M1258299787L/R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
08 Aug 2018
Moore F is an impact crater in transition. Image width is about eight kilometers. NAC images M125720601L/R and M125713813L/R. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
04 Aug 2018
The Aristarchus crater (40 kilometer diameter, 23.73°N, 312.51°E) and plateau is one of the most geologically complex areas on the Moon. In this amazing picture, the LRO spacecraft slewed 62° (west-to-east) looking across the crater. Image: NAC M1259297876LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
26 Jul 2018
LROC WAC mosaic centered at 22.0°N and 277.5°E showing the Earth's shadow during a partial lunar eclipse on June 26, 2010. It takes LRO two hours to orbit the Moon so only during one orbit was the spacecraft in the full shadow, or umbra. The mosaic is 240 km wide. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
20 Jul 2018
Eimmart A, partially visible at lower right, has a split personality. Image numbers M1098422839L/R, M1098408548L/R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
05 Jul 2018
Overhead view of South Ray crater, the most prominent feature at the Apollo 16 Descartes landing site in the central lunar highlands. Astronaut John Young landed Lunar Module Orion north of the crater on 21 April 1972 (UTC). Image is a little less than one kilometer wide and is centered at 9.1493°S, 15.3827°E. Image number M1149402618LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
