Apollo Landing Sites Revisited
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Apollo 16: What Young Really Means on the Moon
03.08.12 - 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'
03.07.12 - 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
03.06.12 - This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon.
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Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks
03.05.12 - This new LRO image taken from low altitude shows Apollo 15 hardware and tracks in more detail than seen before.
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Skimming the Moon
09.06.11 - Normally the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) orbits the Moon in a 50 km altitude, near-circular, polar orbit.
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New Images Offer Sharper View of Apollo Sites
09.06.11 - NASA's LRO captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites.
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Apollo 16: Footsteps Under High Sun
07.08.10 - This image from LRO of the Apollo 16 landing site was acquired when the sun was nearly overhead. High sun causes white and metallic artifacts left on the surface by to stand out in high contrast.
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The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector
04.13.10 - The close-up here shows the Apollo 15 landing site. The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector (LRRR) array is one of four such working arrays on the surface of the moon.
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Apollo 13's Booster Impact
03.23.10 - On April 14, 1970, the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impacted the moon north of Mare Cognitum. The resulting crater, roughly 30 meters in diameter, is clearly visible in a new LRO image.
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3D Measurements of Apollo 14 Landing Site
01.29.10 - Images from the LRO Camera taken at slightly different angles were used to make 3D measurements of the Apollo 14 landing site.
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LRO Views Apollo 11 Landing Site
11.09.09 - Now in its mapping orbit, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped its best-quality image of the Apollo 11 landing site to date.
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Apollo 12 Landing Site
11.04.09 - From a 50 km mapping orbit, LROC reveals more details of the Apollo 12 landing site.
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Apollo 17 Lunar Module Landing Site
10.28.09 - The next pass over the Apollo 17 landing site resulted in images with more than two times better resolution than previously acquired.
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LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site
10.08.09 - LRO has snapped a photo of the impact site of part of Apollo 14's Saturn IVB rocket booster, intentionally impacted to serve scientific purposes.
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A Second Look at Apollo 11
10.01.09 - The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned another image of the Apollo 11 landing site.
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Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
09.03.09 - Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, LRO has seen the landing site.
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Trail of Discovery at Fra Mauru
08.20.09 - This LROC image released highlights one of the locations visited by the Apollo 14 astronauts.
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LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites
07.17.09 - NASA's LRO spacecraft has returned images of five of the six Apollo moon landing sites.
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Apollo 15's Lunar 'Halo'
07.25.08 - Images from a Japanese spacecraft show evidence of the Apollo 15 astronauts' visit to the lunar surface.
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Hubble Prospects for Lunar Resources
10.19.05 - NASA scientists are using the Hubble Space Telescope to hunt for resources on the lunar surface.
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Apollo's Lunar Leftovers
06.28.04 - Astronauts, spacecraft, moon rocks and science experiments all returned safely from the Moon. But what was left behind?