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New NASA temperature maps provide ‘whole new way of seeing the moon’

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Detailed Mapping of Moon’s South Pole

GREENBELT, Md. — NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the Moon. The ...
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NASA releases amazing high-resolution image of Earth from the moon's orbit

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is still in orbit around the moon -- just like it says on the tin -- and its LROC three-camera system just delivered one of the most amazing high-resolution images of ...
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NASA’s LRO camera captures unprecedented image of the Moon’s hidden crater at dawn

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured an extraordinary image of the Moon’s surface. The photo, taken on August 30, 2023, offers a rare glimpse into an unnamed lunar crater, ...