LRO Images of Apollo Landing Sites

topic posted Sat, July 18, 2009 - 8:32 AM by  Hummingbird
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  • Re: LRO Images of Apollo Landing Sites

    Sun, July 19, 2009 - 5:54 AM
    Hummingbird,
    In the future, please, include a short abstract from the article(s) you are posting, before the link.


    Something like this:


    LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites 07.17.09 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident.

    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, was able to image five of the six Apollo sites, with the remaining Apollo 12 site expected to be photographed in the coming weeks.
    ...

    more at: www.nasa.gov/mission_pag...losites.html



    Thanks,
    MOD

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