18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
.... The thermal data and images were made available by the thermal radiometer instrument, known as Diviner, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Diviner showed the team that the surrounding, scattered rocks produced more heat compared with...
12 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
... Moon. The data used had been collected by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission;...body. "When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of...
03 December 2019
Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified
...have been on the hunt for Vikram's remains. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team released the first mosaic (acquired Sept. 17) ...Subramanian, an Indian programmer who lives in Chennai, tipped off NASA when he noticed a new dot in an image from ...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... unparalleled in human history and they embrace, and poignantly echo, our continued efforts to achieve peace. NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took these images of the Apollo 12 landing site in 2011 note that the astronaut footpaths...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
... rover adjusting the high-gain antenna to point directly at Earth. Some 37 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter overflew the landing site at an altitude of 50 km and captured photographs at a resolution of 50 cm per pixel. The...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
...(M3) onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as water reflected from the Moon's surface, but it was...
