Apollo Landing Sites Revisited
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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?