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NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell
NASA ended its successful GRAIL mission by intentionally crashing the twin spacecraft into the moon. Another satellite observed the event.
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LRO Featured in Journal Special Edition
Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) are the subject of a special edition of Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
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NASA Beams Mona Lisa to the Moon
NASA beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the LRO spacecraft as part of the first demo of laser communication with a satellite at the moon.
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Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored
Readings from Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors have been restored and made available to scientists thanks to work by the National Space Science Data Center at Goddard.
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New: 2013 Phases of the Moon Animation Released
A new animation highlighting the phases of the Moon has been released by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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LRO Explores the Moon in 3-D
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is acquiring stereo images of the moon that can be used to generate 3-D views of the moon's surface.
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Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds
Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater.
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LRO Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere
Scientists using LRO's spectrometer have observed helium in the tenuous atmosphere surrounding the moon.
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Estimating Ice Content at Moon's South Pole
Scientists mapped Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail using the laser altimeter on LRO and found evidence for ice.
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LRO Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone
Imagine being on a spacecraft flying backward with its small window facing down toward the moon. Suddenly, Earth rises over the lunar limb.
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New LRO Videos: Moon's Evolution, Take a Tour
Celebrating 1,000 days in orbit, the LRO team released two new videos.
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Apollo 16: What Young Really Means on the Moon
One of the main goals of the Apollo 16 mission was to explore and sample a young bright-rayed crater aptly named North Ray crater.
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Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own'
This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity’s first venture to another world.
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Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms
This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon.
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Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks
This new LRO image taken from low altitude shows Apollo 15 hardware and tracks in more detail than seen before.
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LRO Reveals Recent Lunar Geological Activity
Small valleys in the lunar crust appear to be 50 million years old -- young, from a geological perspective.
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LRO Instrument Measures Recent Solar Flare
University of New Hampshire-based researchers used an LRO instrument to directly measure radiation effects from late January's solar flare.
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@LRO_NASA Surpasses 100k Twitter Followers
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has acquired more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. LRO joined Twitter on May 29, 2008.
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LRO to Observe 2011's Final Lunar Eclipse
LRO will get a moon-based perspective on the final lunar eclipse of 2011, which occurs on December 10.
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New Hi-Res Lunar Map from LRO
The new topographic map -- the highest resolution ever created -- shows surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon.
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Moon Rock Goes on Display at Arizona State University
The sample, returned as part of a larger rock by the Apollo 15 mission, will go on public display beginning Nov. 5, 2011.