LRO: Mapping Our Future

  • Released Thursday, May 21st, 2009
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:54PM
  • ID: 10438

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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For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/overview/

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Some of the lunar visualization used in this video uses elevation data from JAXA/SELENE.

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Tapes

This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:
  • LRO Overview (ID: 2009032)
    Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Jesse Allen