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NASA | Noah Petro Explains New LRO Images of Apollo 12, 14, and 17 Sites
Learn more about the new images from Noah Petro, Research Scientist and member of the LRO Project Science team! NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17...
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the LRO/LCROSS Launch Prep
Excitement is running high at Kennedy Space Center as NASA's top lunar experts prepare for the LRO/LCROSS launch.
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Moon Phases 2022 – Southern Hemisphere – 4K
This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position,...
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Moon Phases 2018 - Southern Hemisphere - 4K
This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2018, as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon's orbit position,...
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Moon Phases 2017 – Southern Hemisphere - 4K
This 4K visualization shows the moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2017, as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon's orbit position,...
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LRO Mission | NASA's First Step Back to the Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's first step in returning humans to the Moon and extending human presence into the solar system. LRO will create the comprehensive atlas of the Moon's features and resources necessary to...
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The Apollo 12 Landing Site
This video showcases the Apollo 12 landing site, visualized in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The locations of the flag shadow, experiment package,...
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NASA | Repeatability
Why do engineers need to test things over and over and over again? Find out in this video made for students by BEST (Beginning Engineering, Science, and Technology). Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | HD Lunar Flyover of the First Images from the LRO Camera
A starkly beautiful region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater, which is located on the floor of the ancient Imbrian-aged Deslandres impact structure in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium. Numerous small, secondary craters can...
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NASA | Evolution of the Moon
From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of...
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Moon Phases 2022 – Northern Hemisphere – 4K
This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position,...
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Moon Phases 2018 - Northern Hemisphere - 4K
This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2018, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon's orbit position,...
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Moon Phases 2017 – Northern Hemisphere – 4K
This 4K visualization shows the moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2017, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon's orbit position,...
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Moon Features - Rima Prinz and Vera
Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was used to create this visualization of the Rima Prinz channel and Vera volcanic depression on the Moon. This video was narrated by NASA Goddard planetary geologist Debra Hurwitz Needham....
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NASA | Sharper Views of Apollo 12, 14, and 17 Sites
Short video showing the new images and identifying important features of the Apollo missions. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites, revealing...
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NASA | LRO Data Release
The seven instruments aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter provide varied and unique datasets, but because of its polar orbit, the data coverage from LRO is best at the lunar poles. This visualization shows datasets from three LRO...
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NASA | LRO Brings "Earthrise" to Everyone
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the moon. Now, the rest of us can see what it was like in a new...
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Lee Lincoln Scarp at the Apollo 17 Landing Site
This visualization of Lee Lincoln scarp is created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs and elevation mapping. The scarp is a low ridge or step about 80 meters high and running north-south through the western end of the...
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Happy International Observe the Moon Night!
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission wishes everyone a happy International Observe the Moon Night. Music Provided by Universal Production Music: "Moonlit Night" - Justyna Kelley Video Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...
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Apollo 16 Lands in the Lunar Highlands
Thanks to data provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, we are able to visualize the Apollo 16 landing site in the Descartes highlands on the nearside of the Moon, where the astronauts landed in April 1972. The mission was...
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Observe the Moon — 🎵 by P!NK & Ndlovu Youth Choir
In celebration of International Observe the Moon Night (Oct. 16, 2021), NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission created this music video featuring the song "A Million Dreams," performed by the musical artist P!NK and the Ndlovu Youth...
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Scientists want giant ‘liquid mirror’ telescope on moon
Liquid mirrors are lighter, simpler, faster to construct, and ten times cheaper than conventional glass mirrors
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What made the SpaceX manned Dragon capsule so significant?
Yesterday, on the 31st May 2020, NASA and SpaceX successfully docked their Dragon capsule with the ISS. But what makes this event so significant?
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Why was Betelgeuse dimming? New data from Hubble
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Why were you dimming? Scientists may have finally come up with the answer thanks to data from Hubble.