A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of ...

A NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter composite image showing an artificially ... solar wind on two samples of loose regolith brought to Earth by the Apollo 17 mission.

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal ... 15,000 images and detailed height measurements from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has surveyed the entire surface.

LROC images will also be used to map and determine current impact hazards by re-photographing Apollo image areas. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is designed to address two of the prime ...

wp:paragraph --> The Apollo 11 simulation on which you ... was derived primarily from data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a probe NASA launched in 2009, with smaller features ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan ... s surface with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter now takes images (like this one, above, of Tycho ...

These areas were picked using the data from LRO or the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter These parking spots ... on 2009 and has been gathering intel. "Apollo landing sites were in the sort of central ...