Neatorama » LRO http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:42:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Pictures of Apollo Landing Sites http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/new-pictures-of-apollo-landing-sites/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/new-pictures-of-apollo-landing-sites/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:27:39 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=25247

Forty years later, you can still see the lunar modules, and even footprints, left on the moon by the Apollo missions. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO took new pictures between July 11th and 15th.

“Not only do these images reveal the great accomplishments of Apollo, they also show us that lunar exploration continues,” said LRO project scientist Richard Vondrak of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “They demonstrate how LRO will be used to identify the best destinations for the next journeys to the moon.”

NASA officials say the next round of photographs, to be taken during the final mapping orbit, will have even greater resolution. Link -via Bad Astronomy Blog, where these pictures caused great excitement.

(image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University)

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