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• To Prove ‘Fertility,’ NASA Had to Rape Moon

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 136
  submitted by a readerNASA ‘Lacrosse’ Team Confirms Moon WaterThe argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. —NASAWell, whoever argued that in the first place, and which one of you thought of that smug opening line?“Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, ...
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• High Noon over Apollo 11 on YouTube

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Tranquility Base at high noon, is virtually zoomed-in upon, this time on YouTube , an animated survey of the latest of three images of Apollo 11 swept up by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) October 1. Detail about the full image were posted November 9 [LROC M109080308RE - NASA/GSFU/ASU]. Lunar ...
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• Just Released! Video of Tranquility Base via LRO

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 671
  Youve seen the pictures, now watch the movie! Zoom into the Apollo 11 landing site with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiters latest images of Tranquility Base where humans took their first steps on the Moon . Thrill with the detail! Swoon with the history! Or, just enjoy it. © nancy for Universe Today , ...
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• Dr. Jack Schmitt salutes LROCs Mark Robinson and the LRO camera team at Arizona State

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Region of Taurus-Littrow valley around the Apollo 17 landing site ( Full Release Image ) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Mark Klesius The Daily Planet Smithsonian Air & Space " We emailed moonwalker Harrison Schmitt , the Apollo 17 lunar module pilot and the only geologist—the only ...
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• Neil & Buzz’s Playground

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 735
  Image From NASA/LRO For just over 21 hours in July of 1969, two men became the first humans to take a stroll around the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked around the surface of the Moon supported by Michael Collins orbiting in the Apollo 11 Command Module, a dedicated NASA crew back on Earth, and carrying ...
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• LRO Gets Additional View of Apollo 11 Landing Site

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”With those eight words, astronaut Neil Armstrong let the world know that Apollo 11 had landed safely on the moon, beginning humankind’s first exploration of another world. The landing certainly kept the mission operations crew in suspense as Armstrong ...
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• One Giant Leap seen again

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 698
  Let me show you something. And when I say "something", I mean something . See the red arrow, and where it’s pointing? That arrow is pointing to a place that changed humanity forever. You can divide all of history between the time before and the time after what happened where that arrow points. You see, that ...
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• High Noon at Tranquility Base

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Sixty meters over West Crater Neil Armstrong takes manual control from the automated landing system of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" because it seemed about to set down within the craters boulder-strewn interior. The still above from the sequential still camera shows the last moments of slowed forward motion ...
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• Ejecta blanket features

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Interactions between the mobilized material excavated during impact and the pre-existing surface formed dune-like and trough-like features in the ejecta blanket of Galvani B, a 15-km diameter crater. North is up, image resolution is 0.58 m/pixel [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Lillian Ostrach LROC News ...
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• LRO sees a Moonslide

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 698
  The hi-res Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s camera captured a pretty cool image of a (what I’m guessing is an ancient) landslide on the Moon. Check this out: [Click to embrobdingnangate.] The slide is down the steep slope of a crater called Marius, located in Oceanus Procellarum, a vast smooth-surfaced ...
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• Landslides in Marius Crater

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Landslide deposits seen on the steep interior slopes of Marius crater , image is 204 meters wide [ NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University ]. Samuel Lawrence LROC News System Impact events, volcanism, and tectonism form the majority of features found on the Moon. However landslides are an important modifier of ...
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• LCROSS preliminary results

  
  The Martian Chronicles — Authority: 119
  Hey remember when we bombed the moon? Here’s an interesting article about some preliminary results from LCROSS. I was especially surprised when they said that there may be mercury at the impact site. They say they’re seeing spectral lines that could be produced by iron, magnesium or mercury, but then the article ...
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• LRO takes Closer Look at the Apollo 12 Landing Site

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  The LROC team released their first view of the Apollo 12 landing site earlier this year. Even though that image was collected from the higher LRO commissioning phase orbit, details of the landing site could be discerned, including the trails followed by Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean, the descent module of ...
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• Midday on Oceanus Procellarum: Apollo 12

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Enlarged view showing details of the Apollo 12 landing site. In the upper left, you can see the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, or ALSEP. The positions of the ALSEP central station, seismometer, Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG), magnetometer, Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE), and Cold ...
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• LROs Closer Look at the Apollo 12 Landing Site

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 671
  Close-up view of Apollo 12 landing site from LRO. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Wow! Just look at the detail visible in this image of the Apollo 12 landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from its lower mapping orbit of 50 km above the surface. Compared to earlier images taken in ...
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• LRO Spies Apollo 17 Site

  
  Tom's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 129
  Region of Taurus Littrow valley around the Apollo 17 landing site. Click for larger. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this look at the landing site for Apollo 17. If you click the image above you will get a larger version of the image. You can see an ...
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• MSFC Decides Not to Openly Compete LRO EPO Contract

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 566
  NASA MSFC Solicitation: Implementation of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Education and Public Outreach Plan "NASA/MSFC has a requirement for assistance and services in the implementation of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Education and Public Outreach (EPO) plan for the Lunar Quest Program Office. This ...
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• More Impact Melt!

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  The crater Moore F (about 23 km in diameter) exhibits a spectacular terraced rim and central uplift – a beautiful example of a complex impact structure. Surrounding the central uplift, the crater floor is covered by both frozen impact melt flows and debris. The melt formed as a result of the tremendous energy ...
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• "More" Moore F impact melt

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 439
  Close up of left middle of LROC image release below , "just-over" 250 meter-wide swatch of impact melt within crater Moore F. "Spectacular" lunar morphology is shown, and perhaps a deep contrast in age, witnessed by crater saturation seen through what appears to be a window left open on the distant past. The melt is ...
  2 weeks ago

• … and the flag was still there

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 698
  This is very, very cool: The Lunar Reconnassance Orbiter, currently orbiting the Moon just 50 km off the surface, has taken more shots of the Apollo 17 landing site … and has seen the actual U.S. flag! Behold (and salute): [Click to boldly embiggen.] Well, lookit that! It’s fuzzy and small and hard to ...
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