Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Polar Regions 37 Search Five Years Later: Revisiting an Old Friend A portion of LROC's first image (M101013931), acquired five years ago today. This region of the rim of Shackleton crater near the lunar South Pole is illuminated over 70% of the time, while the floor of the crater is permanently shaded from sunlight [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 03 Jul 2014 681 Gigapixels! Spectacular LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) allows exploration from 60°N up to the pole at the astounding pixel scale of 2 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 17 Mar 2014 Synthetic Views of the Moon Synthetic view of the waxing Moon as viewed from Earth on 2013-10-15 17:00:00 UTC [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 15 Oct 2013 A Unique View Of The Moon The Sun overhead, across the whole Moon! Of course this is not possible in real life, but 36 nearly complete WAC mosaics make this view possible [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 17 Jul 2013 Giordano Bruno, The Big Picture Mosaic of eight LROC NAC images provides this spectacular view of the interior of Giordano Bruno crater (21 km diameter). Resolution was reduced by 10 times to fit this Featured Image format, M185212646LR, M185219795LR, M185226944LR, M185234092LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 26 Jun 2012 1000 Day Anniversary of LROC Imaging Rim of Shackleton crater near the lunar South Pole as seen in the first LROC NAC image of the Moon, acquired on 30 June 2009. Image is 850 m across, NAC M101013931 [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 26 Mar 2012 Sunset Boulder A tall boulder on the floor of a crater catches a few last rays of light at sunset. Image width is 620 m, NAC frame M134442210R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 01 Mar 2012 Lunar Topography - As Never Seen Before! LROC WAC color shaded relief of the lunar farside (NASA/GSFC/DLR/Arizona State University). Published on 16 Nov 2011 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 16 Aug 2011 North Pole Mosaics and Movie LROC Wide Angle Camera mosaic of the Moon's north pole; polar stereographic projection, 60°N to 90°N [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 16 Mar 2011 Prev 1 2 3 4 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 11 - 20 of 37 in total