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Forum:	Satellites - Robotic Probes
Topic:	NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Scott: [B]The Apollo 17 landing site [URL=http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/?archives/137-Exploring-the-Apollo-17-Site.html]has been re-imaged[/URL] from the new 50 km mapping orbit, with more detail visible now. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="+0">[b]Exploring the Apollo 17 Site[/b]</font> LRO maneuvered into its 50-km mapping orbit on September 15. The next pass over the Apollo 17 landing site resulted in images with more than two times better resolution than previously acquired. At the time of this recent overflight the Sun was high in the sky (28° incidence angle) helping to bring out subtle differences in surface brightness. The descent stage of the lunar module Challenger is now clearly visible, at 50-cm per pixel (angular resolution) the descent stage deck is eight pixels across (four meters), and the legs are also now distinguishable. The descent stage served as the launch pad for the ascent stage as it blasted off for a rendezvous with the command module America on 14 December 1972. Tracks are clearly visible and can be followed to the east, where astronauts Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan set up the Surface Electrical Properties (SEP) experiment. Cernan drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) in an intersecting north-south and east-west course to mark positions for laying out the SEP thirty-five meter antennas (circle labeled "SEP" marks the area of the SEP transmitter). The dark area just below the SEP experiment is where the astronauts left the rover, in a prime spot for monitoring the liftoff...</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/lrolcross_apollo07.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="400"> <img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/lrolcross_apollo08.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="400"> <font size="-2">Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University</font></center> <a name="1104091607"></a>[/B][/QUOTE]
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