The LROC Team delivers third archive volume to the PDS, more than 68,000 new images are now available!
September 16 marks the transition of the LRO mission from NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate to NASA's Science Mission Directorate
LROC Team Releases 3rd EDR and CDR Archive Volume
The third LROC release contains 68,992 EDR products, totaling 8.1 TBytes of images and ancillary files. The majority of the images were taken between March 16, 2010 to June 15, 2010. This release also contains images acquired on the dates: 2010-02-06, 2010-02-24, 2010-02-25, 2010-03-03, 2010-03-04, and 2010-03-05.
The 3rd CDR volume contains 69,091 CDR products, totaling 17.0 TBytes of images and ancillary files. The majority of images were taken between March 16, 2010 to June 15, 2010. There are also images taken on the dates: 2009-06-30 to 2009-12-31, 2010-02-06, 2010-02-24, 2010-02-25, 2010-03-03, 2010-03-04, and 2010-03-05 represented in the volume.
Total number of LROC EDR products released to date: 225,903 for a total 28.2 TBytes of images and ancillary files.
Total number of LROC CDR products released to date: 225,428, for a total of 55 TBytes of images and ancillary files.
Explore the new images on LROC's browse page.
ESMD to SMD Transition
September 16 marks the transition of the LRO mission from NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate to NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Throughout the first phase of LRO's mission the spacecraft collected vast amounts of science data in support of NASA's exploration goals. The transition simply means that LRO science data will now support NASA's science goals. What does this transition mean in practice? For the most part the transition will be relatively seamless, with only a re-prioritization of special targeted observations. For example, the Constellation regions of interest will drop in priority and other high science value targets will have their priority raised. The bottom line is that LRO will continue to collect a bonanza of lunar science data.
Published by Mark Robinson on 16 September 2010