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A Stark Beauty All Its Own

A Stark Beauty All Its Own

LROC's best look yet at the Apollo 11 Landing site. The remnants of Armstrong and Aldrin's historic first steps on the surface are seen as dark paths around the Lunar Module (LM), Lunar Ranging RetroReflector (LRRR) and Passive Seismic...

Published on 07 Mar 2012

Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms

Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms

The Apollo 12 landing site in Oceanus Procellarum imaged during the second LRO low-altitude campaign. Image width is 225 m, NAC Image M175428601R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 06 Mar 2012

Follow the Tracks

Follow the Tracks

Apollo 15 landing site imaged from an altitude of 25 km (M175252641L,R) allowing an even higher resolution view! The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is parked to the far right, and the Lunar Module descent stage is in the center, LRV tracks...

Published on 05 Mar 2012

Brayley G

Brayley G

This small crater is perched on the edge of something much more extraordinary. Read on to discover more! LROC NAC frame M175515801L, 30 cm pixel scale, image is 300 meters across [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 24 Jan 2012

Project Gemini Comes to Life

Project Gemini Comes to Life

Major milestones of the Gemini flights: Ed White performs the first US spacewalk (upper left), first rendezvous of two crewed spacecraft (upper right), first docking of two spacecraft (lower left), tethering of two spacecraft (lower...

Published on 06 Jan 2012

Just Another Crater?

Just Another Crater?

Not ordinary - amazing! What makes this 110 meter diameter crater stand out from the rest? LROC NAC M175077349L, 225 meters wide, 25 cm pixel scale, north is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 12 Dec 2011

Hadley Rille and the Mountains of the Moon

Hadley Rille and the Mountains of the Moon

The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter rolled to capture this dramatic oblique view of the Apollo 15 landing site. Hadley rille, a great chasm in the lunar surface, carves its way through the center of this scene [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State...

Published on 04 Nov 2011

On the rim!

On the rim!

Saddle rock, so close! Apollo 14 astronauts hiked up the flanks of Cone crater and got as far as Saddle rock before they had to turn back. A few tens of meters and what a view! LROC image 25 cm pixel scale, image 200 meters wide, north...

Published on 08 Sep 2011

Skimming the Moon

Skimming the Moon

Low periapsis Narrow Angle Camera image of the Apollo 17 Landing Site. Image is 150 meters wide, Sun from the left, north towards top [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 06 Sep 2011

Layers near Apollo 15 landing site

Layers near Apollo 15 landing site

West side edges of Hadley Rille, near Apollo 15 landing site. Image number M113941548L, resolution is 0.5 m/pixel, image width is 500 m, incidence angle 59°, sunlight is from right side of the image [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 30 Aug 2011

Sampling Schrödinger

Sampling Schrödinger

Boulders rolled down an incline on a terrace near the Schrödinger basin rim. Boulders are ~20 to 30 m in size. Image width is ~1.2 km, downslope direction to upper left, LROC NAC M159017963R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 17 Aug 2011

Crash or Coincidence?

Crash or Coincidence?

An odd-looking impact feature raises an intriguing, Apollo-era trivia question (3.02°N, 119.15°E). NAC image number M141485413; incidence angle 12°; Sun is from the east; north is up; image is ~600 meters across [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State...

Published on 20 Jul 2011

Project Mercury Photography Now Online

Project Mercury Photography Now Online

Alan Shepard's view of space from Freedom 7 [NASA/JSC/Arizona State University]!

Published on 05 May 2011

Rima Bradley

Rima Bradley

Rima Bradley is a northeast/southwest-trending linear rille located between Mare Imbrium and Palus Putredinis (very close to the Apollo 15 landing site). Rima Bradley probably formed as a result of tectonic stresses in the Imbrium...

Published on 10 Feb 2011

New View of Apollo 14

New View of Apollo 14

NAC image of the Apollo 14 landing site acquired 25 January 2011. Descent stage of lunar module Antares in center, image width is 500 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 04 Feb 2011

Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon

Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon

Craters in the center of Apollo basin (36°S, 209°E) named after Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts, LROC WAC mosaic, ~190 km wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 28 Jan 2011

Gassendi's Central Peak

Gassendi's Central Peak

Close up of a boulder (25 meters or two school buses wide) on the central peak of crater Gassendi. LROC NAC frame M109495053R, image width is 450 m [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 03 Nov 2010

Color of the Moon

Color of the Moon

The LROC WAC is busily mapping the Moon in 7 UV and visible wavelengths (320 nm through 689 nm). This color composite shows 320 nm light in blue, 415 nm in green and 689 nm in red, scene is ~1000 km wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State...

Published on 10 Sep 2010

New Impact Crater on the Moon!

New Impact Crater on the Moon!

New impact crater on the Moon! Since this crater is not visible in images from the Apollo 15 mission, it formed sometime in the last 38 years. The new crater is only ~10 meters (30 feet) across, but its bright ejecta extends much...

Published on 27 Jul 2010

A Dark Cascade at Sulpicius Gallus

A Dark Cascade at Sulpicius Gallus

LROC NAC close-up of the wall of a suspected volcanic vent within the regional pyroclastic deposit near Sulpicius Gallus. Image M124505982R, view is 517 m across [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 22 Jul 2010