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• Mysterious Mees

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  A small (~6.9 kilometer square) section of the Mees Formation , attendant to Mees (~263.72°E, 16.71°N) and, at least at one point, a 1,645 meter deep crack in the highlands well to the north by northwest of Mare Orientale. It is also just barely in the libration zone that allows it be visible from Earth, albeit at ...
  7 hours ago

• Far Side Delights

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Moon Sheep . Huge boulders seem to have been herded together on the rim of a small and very weathered crater near the northeastern rim of Far Side Hertzsprung basin, south of a line stretched between craters Weyl and Fersman. Its a small far-flung corner in one of 786 images released to the Planetary Data System ( ...
  16 hours ago

• LROC tests the PDS with a pre-release

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Its only a Sample of a Sample , but we couldnt post nothing , even though its very early in our investigation of the outstanding Christmas present Friday from Mark Robinson and the LROC team at Arizona State University. Its a treasure of 700 recent LRO Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images, released as a welcome test ...
  1 day ago

• Really, Really Close-Up on the Alpine Valley

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Just how old is the incredible Vallis Alpes , the "Alpine Valley" bisecting the Montes Alps on the northeast "rim" of Mare Imbrium? Through a telescope the valley appears to be a crack radiant from the Imbrium impact (~3.8 billion years). Among other clues the arc of mountains it transects seems out of "sync" ...
  2 days ago

• Lunar morphology in the Lake of Death

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Close up on southwestern Lacus Mortis and a 700 meter wide section of 104 km-long graben Rimae Burg near where it translates from the mare-filled "lake" into the highlands beyond its shore. The narrow angle camera on-board LRO swept up this familiar Near Side telescopic target early in the commissioning phase of its ...
  3 days ago

• Moon Poses Radiation Risk to Future Travelers

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Rather than blocking cosmic rays, the moon itself is a powerful source of radiation, measurements show.
  3 days ago

• AGU 2009 – Day 2

  
  The Martian Chronicles — Authority: 459
  I started off day 2 of AGU at a couple of lunar talks showing off data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Unfortunately, I missed the early sessions about the high-res cameras, but the bright side was that I learned abount some instruments I was less familiar with. First was the Lunar Orbital Laser Altimeter – ...
  3 days ago

• Coldest Spot on the Moon

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Hermite is foreground for an Earthrise in 2007, witnessed by Japans Kaguya . Hugging the west side of the Moons north polar region Hermite is within the Zone of Librations. Though two-thirds of its 114 km-wide interior is technically on the Moons Far Side it can still be seen from Earth. Not along its southwestern ...
  3 days ago

• Young Giordano Bruno

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Frozen impact melt flows on the ejecta blanket of the young impact crater Giordano Bruno (22 km diameter). The image is about 600 m across and the flows are about 50-100 m wide (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). Mark Robinson LROC News System In many cases LROC has seen frozen flows of impact melt inside ...
  4 days ago

• Bruno Crater, the Youngest Large Crater on the Moon

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 583
  Giordano Bruno is one of the youngest large craters (22 km diameter) on the Moon. How old is “youngest”? Written accounts of twelfth century observations of a bright flash on the Moon may record the event that formed Giordano Bruno crater? That idea was proposed after the first high resolution pictures of the ...
  4 days ago

• NASA Unveils Latest Results From Lunar Mission

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 583
  NASA’s current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific meeting today, researchers unveiled the latest findings from three instruments of the powerful suite of seven ...
  4 days ago

• LRO Finds Some Surprises on the Moon

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 655
  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is getting the closest look yet at the Moon from orbit , providing crucial insights to help prepare for a possible return of humans to the lunar surface. "There is a lot of natural beauty on the Moon ," said Mike Wargo, NASAs chief lunar scientist, speaking at the American ...
  4 days ago

• AGU briefed on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Deceptively smooth terrain , like cake frosting when viewed from Earth, Mare Imbrium at its human scale is being steadily uncovered in tortured detail by the narrow angle camera (NAC) under the direction of the LROC team at Arizona State University. When combined with the exploration and subsequent science data ...
  4 days ago

• New LRO Results Including Pics of Crater Giordano Bruno

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 526
  NASA Unveils Latest Results From Lunar Mission, Helps Prepare for Next Stage of Scientific Discovery "NASAs current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific meeting ...
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• Craters On the “Dark Side”

  
  Tom's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 129
  Craters on the "dark side". Dont see "craters"? Read on. Credit:NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University. Here is an image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image shows secondary craters.  Secondary craters are  those craters formed not by an foreign body hitting the moon, rather ...
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• Wrinkle Ridge Close-Up

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Wrinkle ridges of northwest Mare Imbrium . A northeast-trending wrinkle ridge cuts across the plains of Mare Imbrium. The overall ridge is about 4.5 km wide. The contact between the ridge (right) and the surrounding mare basalt plains (left) runs diagonally up the image (NASA/GSFC/ Arizona State University ). For ...
  5 days ago

• LRO spots Apollo 12 footsteps

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 712
  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned another incredible picture of an Apollo landing site, this time of our second manned walk on another world… and again, the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible! In November 1969, Apollo 12 touched down near the Surveyor 3 probe, which had ...
  6 days ago

• LRO DIVINER LPSC Symposium, February 2010

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Its beginning to look like the 41st Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands in Texas, March 1-5, 2010, will be among the very best places to get any advance view of the long-on-promise data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and its seven experiments now in lunar orbit. The Lunar ...
  2 weeks ago

• LEAG Premium Presentations are now online

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Ina ("D" Formation - (18.5°N, 5.3°E)), an enigmatic formation long the focus of study from the ground and from lunar orbit, was prominent in a presentation by Marc Robinson of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ( LROC ) team at Arizona State University, to the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Lunar ...
  2 weeks ago

• LROs Mini-RF Serenitatus Swath

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  LRO Mini-RF S-band zoom synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image strip through central Mare Serenitatis on the near side of the Moon (approximate longitude of strip ~ 18° E; center latitude ~ 20° N). (Full Image HERE .) The radar strip runs through the crater Bessel (inset; 17 km (10 mile) diameter; center at ...
  2 weeks ago

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