Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

Exciting New Images from The LROC Team.

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First to See the Farside

24 Dec 2018

AS08-13-2329, BW Earthrise — First photograph (BW) taken of the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise sequence, the following images were acquired with color film [AS08-13-2329, NASA].

Mount Marilyn: A Lunar Love Story

21 Dec 2018

138 km wide view, centered on Mt. Marilyn — Mount Marilyn, with its distinctive triangular shape, served as an important navigation landmark for the Apollo 11 astronauts. Portion of LROC Wide Angle Camera mosaic, 138 km wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Korolev X and Z

14 Dec 2018

Oblique view of Korolev Z, Korolev X, and melt flow that links them — Sharing a melt flow: visible in the right part of this oblique image is the bright wall of Korolev Z crater, the source of a 12.5-kilometer-long dark melt flow that drapes across the ancient floor of the degraded crater Korolev X. South is to the left. The image covers an area measuring about 20 kilometers from left to right and 40 kilometers from bottom to top. NAC image M1168158470LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Lunar Beauty

20 Nov 2018

A bright young crater. — The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera imaged this bright young ray crater (3.13˚N, 281.07˚E) on 3 November 2018 — just three weeks ago. The Sun shone from the west (left, 48˚ incidence angle). This image covers an area 8.1 kilometers across. NAC image M12959100LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Fractured Crater

15 Nov 2018

Komarov crater — Interior of Komarov crater (24.59°N, 152.25°E; 85 kilometers diameter), near the southern edge of Mare Moscoviense, on the lunar farside. Image 15 km wide across center, LROC NAC M1263901757LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Lobate Scarps: The Movie

31 Oct 2018

Lobate scarps - surface expressions of compressional thrust faults - in d'Alembert crater — Lobate scarps - like those shown here on the floor of the farside crater d'Alembert - are not large, but they tell us much about how hot the Moon was when it was born and its ongoing thermal evolution. Image width is about four kilometers. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]

New Monthly Schedule: LROC PDS Data Release 36A

15 Oct 2018

A montage of LROC images from PDS release 36A — A montage of the LROC NAC images in NASA Planetary Data System release 36A, the first of our new monthly schedule, released 15 October 2018. The image shows the center of every Sun-illuminated, calibrated NAC image with a Data Quantity Identification of 0 - that is, of best image quality - in this Planetary Data System volume [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

The South Side of Tycho Crater

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].

Another Layered Target

04 Oct 2018

Central Peak of Copernicus Crater — 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].

Layered Target

11 Sep 2018

Wallach crater — 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].

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