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 instruments at the moons south pole and then flies around the lunar terrain shown by the last of the three, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter.

On March 15, the publicly accessible Planetary Data System will release data sets from the seven instruments on board NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/image_release.html

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• Moon
• NASA
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• space
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• center
• LRO
• Lunar
• Reconnaissance
• Orbiter
• Data

[uzimachi1]

so creepy and lonely up there hahaha

[DragonCuber]

That's really quite remarkable

[HSSDamian]

@sferrin2 It wouldn't be Google Earth then would it?

[sferrin2]

Looking for the day when all of this data is available on Google Earth.

[Zoroasterrrr]

so witch is true? The moon is a piece of the earth that broke off from impact of a large object or that it is a piece of mars that broke off from a large impact.

[Zoroasterrrr]

The moon is going to be the source of helium 3? Fusion Energy? Mining operations by 2050?

[IauthenticI]

no comment.

[SephSwain]

Epic.

[JoeQwesto]

...first oldschool photoshop and now this. Can't await the 3D version on "Our men on Mars" :D

[siyuanthesuper1]

THIS IS SEXIEST THING IVE EVER SAW

[siyuanthesuper1]

@whynostop

U ARE BRAINWASHING PEOPLE DUMMY.

UR SILLY