Planets and Moons ID: 10447

Flyover of the First Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

Released on July 7, 2009

A starkly beautiful region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater, which is located on the floor of the ancient Imbrian-aged Deslandres impact structure in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium. Numerous small, secondary craters can be identified, including several small crater chains. Also identifiable are distinctive lineations made readily apparent by the extreme lighting, representing ejecta from a nearby impact. The NAC image shown here has not been calibrated and the pixel values were stretched to enhance contrast. Image width is 3.5 km x 70 km; north is down.

For More Information

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_20090702_a.html

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/nacl000000fd

Credits

Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC): Video Editor
Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Mark Robinson (Arizona State University): Scientist
Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University

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Mission:
LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

Data Used:

LRO/LROC

Tue Jun 30 15:28:04 UTC 2009

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Lunar
SVS >> Moon
SVS >> Edited Feature
SVS >> LRO
SVS >> Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
SVS >> LROC
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons