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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. [6] [7] Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. [8]
The location of Lunokhod 1 was unknown for nearly 40 years but it was rediscovered in 2010 in photographs by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its retroreflector is now in use. Both the United States and the USSR had the capability to soft-land objects on the surface of the Moon for several years before that.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission of the LPRP program. Management of the LRO was assigned to Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 2004. The LRO launched on an Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station [11] on June 18, 2009, at 5:32 p.m. EDT (2132 GMT).
It was successful in confirming water in the southern lunar crater Cabeus. [5] It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon on a low 50 km polar mapping orbit. [106] The LRO mission is a precursor to future human missions to the Moon by NASA.
Diviner, also referred to as the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), is an infrared radiometer aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, part of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program which is studying the Moon. It has been used to create temperature maps of the Moon's surface, as well as detect ice deposits and surface composition.
LRO may mean: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2009; Large receive offload, in computer networking, a technique for increasing inbound throughput; Light railway order, an order made under the Light Railways Act 1896 for the construction or operation of a railway in the United Kingdom
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