LRO: Mapping Our Future
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar exploration efforts. LRO focuses on the selection of safe landing sites, identification of lunar resources and the study of how lunar radiation will affect humans.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Some of the lunar visualization used in this video uses elevation data from JAXA/SELENE.
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Video editor
- Rich Melnick (KBRwyle)
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Interviewees
- Ashwin Vasavada (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Cathy Peddie (NASA/GSFC)
- Craig Tooley (NASA/GSFC)
- Dana Hurley (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
- John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
- Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Rich Melnick (KBRwyle)
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Videographers
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Erica Drezek (HTSI)
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
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Project support
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
LRO Overview
(ID: 2009032)
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Jesse Allen
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