LRO:1st Images

NASA'S LRO SPACECRAFT SENDS FIRST LUNAR IMAGES TO EARTH GSFC (REPLAY)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images
since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras -- a low resolution
Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras
are working well and have returned images of a region a few kilometers east of Hell E
crater in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium. The Narrow Angle Camera image shown
here has not been calibrated and the pixel values were stretched to enhance contrast.
The full image width is 3.5 kilometers making features discernable down to a few meters
in size.

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