Recent News & Updates
Chang'e 4 Featured Site Now Available

Rovers and Mission Planning: New LROC Activity Guides!

Ready to Launch: Arizona's Place in Space Exhibit

What Armstrong Saw
LROC simulation of what Neil Armstrong Saw as he landed the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle.
Apollo Command Module Ephemeris
Recovered Apollo 15, 16, 17 Command Module ephemeris is now posted on the Apollo Scan Project webpage.
Lunaserv - Try It Out!

Neil A. Armstrong, 1930-2012
Look at the Moon, think of Neil Armstrong, imagine all that we as Americans can accomplish.
New "Featured Sites" on the LROC Webpage
Test drive the new "Featured Sites" on the LROC Webpage, first out - Apollo Landing sites.
Operations Journal: Rolling LRO
Part 2 of Special Targeting: Obliques
Today we continue our tour of Special Targeting on the LROC Uplink team with obliques. An oblique view is any observation where LRO slews more than 30 degrees. A normal oblique for an LROC observation is 50-70 degrees. These obliques are different from our normal slews and extra special because of how much LRO has to move to acquire them. We are only allowed to take one of these every few weeks. When we do take them, they are a coordinated effort with the project and other instruments.
Operations Journal: Special Targeting
Welcome to the exciting world of Special Targeting! My name is Christian Alf, and I will guide you through this special adventure. As a member of the LROC Operations Staff I work on the Uplink Team, for which Zack gave an introduction. One of the responsibilities of an uplinker is to plan special observations. Don't be fooled, we love each of our 600+ images we target a day, but we dedicate a lot more time to a few of them. Typically, these observations require moving the whole spacecraft, coordinating with other instruments, or crunching some numbers to ensure the viewing geometry is optimal. There are five main types of special targets: Geometric Stereo, Obliques, Limb Views, Earth Calibrations, and Ride-alongs with other instruments. Since we target geometric stereo at a higher frequency, lets talk about them first.