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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] Its detailed mapping program is identifying safe landing sites, locating ...
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission beginning in July 2009 show the six Apollo Lunar Module descent stages, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) science experiments, astronaut footpaths, and lunar rover tire tracks. These images are the most effective proof to date to rebut the "landing hoax" theories.
IM-1(Odysseus) IM-1 was a lunar mission that was carried out in February 2024 jointly by a partnership between the NASA CLPS program and Intuitive Machines (IM), using an Nova-C lunar lander. IM named their lunar lander as its Odysseus lander. The Odysseus lander was the first commercial lunar lander to have successfully soft-landed on the Moon ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander, also called Odysseus, Odie or IM-1, on the moon's surface on February 24 at 1:57 p.m. ET. - NASA ...
Denise Chow. Updated February 26, 2024 at 4:54 PM. A privately built spacecraft on the moon has beamed back new photos from the lunar surface, showing the vehicle’s much-celebrated descent and ...
This is a matter of camera settings. ... the lunar samples returned with the Apollo missions do not naturally exist and cannot naturally form anywhere on Earth. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, [1] they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit and photographed both the Moon and Earth. All five missions were successful, and 99 ...
On 20 July 2011, scientists performed experiments with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) to attempt to detect a weak signal of lunar horizon glow. The experiment was done jointly with the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), and Wide Angle Camera (WAC). Both of these captured pictures with long exposure ...