Updates

Chang'e 4 Featured Site Now Available

The new Chang'e 4 Zoomable Traverse Featured Site showing the lander, Yutu 2 rover track, and noted locations with dates since the mission's soft landing on the farside of the...

Published on 30 Mar 2022

Lunar QuickMap Fall 2020 Update

LROC's Lunar QuickMap gets a hefty fall 2020 update, including new interactive features and data layers that allow for even greater user customizations, on-the-fly data...

Published on 29 Oct 2020

Lunar QuickMap Spring 2020 Update

Lunar QuickMap spring 2020 update delivers exciting new features and layers for enhanced user customization and data analysis.

Published on 01 Jun 2020

New Exhibits and Download Sections

A view inside A New Moon Rises exhibit previously at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

Published on 16 Aug 2019

Apollo 11 Footsteps

Relive the Apollo 11 surface traverse with the new upgrade to the LROC Featured Sites [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 29 Mar 2019

LROC QuickMap goes 3D!

 A "Quickmap 3D" view of the lunar nearside with the NAC Anaglyph locations layer turned on.

Published on 11 Oct 2017

LNPM

Reminder, the spectacular LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) is available through three interfaces.

Published on 04 Apr 2014

Ranger and More!

Ranger and Apollo SIV-B impact crater images added to the LROC Featured Sites page!

Published on 07 Nov 2013

Deletion of LROC CDR Products

Important change to the LROC PDS archive -- effective immediately. New regulations from the Consolidation and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-6,...

Published on 20 Aug 2013

New NAC Topography Released

New LROC Narrow Angle Camera topographic maps added to the online archive.

Published on 06 Aug 2013

Lunaserv - Public Beta Access

The LROC Team is providing a new way to access and interact with the LROC PDS archive -- Lunaserv. This new WMS interface is designed to make data search access easier and more...

Published on 20 Mar 2013

Quickmap - Only Better

Try out the LROC browse interface called Quickmap. A few improvements have been made since its release, and more are coming. Start at reduced WAC resolution and end up on the...

Published on 03 Dec 2012

LROC NAC Topography - Second Release

The LROC Team released 57 new high resolution digital terrain models (DTM) on 15 January 2012.

Published on 05 Feb 2012

LROC WAC Global Topography

The WAC global Digital Terrain Model (DTM) is available on the LROC RDR webpage!

Published on 07 Dec 2011

LROC Featured Image -- Summer Vacation

The LROC Featured Image is on vacation this week - please check back the week of August 23rd.

Published on 17 Aug 2010

LROC Archive Back On Line

The building maintenance is complete, and the LROC archive is now back online.

Published on 06 May 2010

Planned Outage for LROC Image Archive

Access to the LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0 and LRO-L-LROC-3-CDR-V1.0 PDS archives will not be available for approximately 24 to 48 hours starting at 4:00 PM MST on 5 May 2010.

Published on 05 May 2010

LROC Coordinates of Robotic Spacecraft

Repeatedly imaging anthropogenic targets on the Moon is an LROC team priority. As each image comes down we carefully search for the hardware (or impact crater). If the target...

Published on 05 Apr 2010

LROC Mass Storage Offline

Much of the previously posted LROC data is currently offline due to a problem with the primary LROC mass storage system. Because the volume is very large, inspecting and...

Published on 22 Feb 2010

Web: News System Visually Enhanced

In our continuing efforts to improve our website, we have visually enhanced our News System!  Check out the new look for our new Featured Images and Announcements!

Published on 18 Jan 2010