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            "title": "Flying over the Taurus-Littrow Valley",
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            "release_date": "2022-05-05T17:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Moon Mosaic",
            "description": "A photomosaic of the full Moon comprising 1,231 images taken by LRO's Narrow Angle Camera. || moon_mosaic_print.jpg (1024x1024) [246.6 KB] || moon_mosaic_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.0 KB] || moon_mosaic_thm.png (80x40) [13.7 KB] || moon_mosaic_big.tif (12800x12800) [72.9 MB] || moon_mosaic.tif (3200x3200) [6.2 MB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2022-04-18T13:30:00-04:00",
            "title": "Apollo 16 Lands in the Lunar Highlands",
            "description": "The camera flies from the east to the Apollo 16 landing site, then flies north to North Ray crater. Includes an introductory slate, astronaut audio, and music.Music provided by Universal Production Music: The Orion Arm – Christian Telford, David Travis Edwards, Matthew St Laurent, and Robert Anthony Navarro.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || apollo16_sound_print.jpg (1024x576) [126.3 KB] || apollo16_youtubehd.webm (1920x1080) [9.6 MB] || apollo16_youtubehd.mp4 (1920x1080) [117.2 MB] || apollo16_captions.en_US.srt [1.5 KB] || apollo16_captions.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || apollo16_master.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2021-07-30T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Apollo 15 Stand-Up EVA",
            "description": "FULL VERSION with Music: Excerpts of Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott's stand-up EVA audio are combined with visuals of the Hadley-Apennine region created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.Music provided by Universal Production Music: “Spread Our Wings” – Ben BeinyWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [79.8 KB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_Thumbnail.tif (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_YOUTUBEHD.webm (1920x1080) [16.0 MB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_FacebookHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [174.2 MB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_YOUTUBEHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [219.5 MB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [1.9 KB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [1.9 GB] || 4918_Apollo15_StandUpEVA_FacebookHD.mp4.hwshow [201 bytes] || ",
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            "title": "Apollo 14 Hike To Cone Crater",
            "description": "Full Video with Narration: This video describes the hike toward Cone crater by Apollo 14 astronauts Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell, using a visualization created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.Music provided by Universal Production Music: “Taking Flight” – Ben Beiny.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 4883_HikeThumbnail1.jpg (1920x1080) [474.2 KB] || 4883_HikeThumbnail2.jpg (1920x1080) [565.1 KB] || 4883_HikeThumbnail1_print.jpg (1024x576) [161.9 KB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_YouTubeHD.webm (1920x1080) [18.4 MB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_FacebookHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [152.1 MB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_YouTubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.4 MB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [2.4 KB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [3.1 GB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2020-04-06T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Apollo 13 S-IVB Impact Site",
            "description": "The impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB is seen as a brief flash on the night side of a waxing gibbous Moon. The camera then flies very close to the surface to show an LRO image of the impact site. || sivb.0540_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.3 KB] || sivb.0540_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.6 KB] || sivb.0540_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || sivb_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [12.8 MB] || sivb_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [6.3 MB] || with_text (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || sivb_720p30.webm (1280x720) [3.2 MB] || sivb_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [2.1 MB] || sivb_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [178 bytes] || ",
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            "release_date": "2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Apollo 12 Landing Site",
            "description": "The Apollo 12 landing site visualized in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The locations of the flag shadow, experiment package, astronaut paths, and the Surveyor 3 spacecraft are marked. Music provided by Universal Production Music: \"The Return\" - Axel Tenner, Michael Schluecker, Raphael Schalz. || 4767_Apollo12LandingSite_print.jpg (1024x576) [232.4 KB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSite_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.8 KB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSite_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSiteYoutubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [88.3 MB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSiteFacebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [67.8 MB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSiteTwitter.mp4 (1280x720) [13.0 MB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSiteYoutubeHD.webm (1920x1080) [6.4 MB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSiteMASTERnew.mov (1920x1080) [760.8 MB] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSite_Captions.en_US.srt [44 bytes] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSite_Captions.en_US.vtt [57 bytes] || 4767_Apollo12LandingSiteFacebook.mp4.hwshow [198 bytes] || ",
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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2019-08-27T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Revisiting Apollo Landing Sites",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4714/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2019-05-13T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Lee Lincoln Scarp at the Apollo 17 Landing Site",
            "description": "An animated view of Lee Lincoln scarp from above and from near ground level. This visualization is created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs and elevation mapping. The scarp is at the western end of the Taurus-Littrow valley, landing site of Apollo 17, and was explored by the astronauts on their second moonwalk. || scarp.0510_print.jpg (1024x576) [101.8 KB] || scarp.0510_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.7 KB] || scarp.0510_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || scarp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.7 MB] || scarp_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [8.7 MB] || scarp_720p30.webm (1280x720) [3.5 MB] || scarp_1080p30_prores.mov (1920x1080) [657.9 MB] || scarp_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.3 MB] || scarp_1080p30.mp4.hwshow || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4733/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hyperwall: Scouting the Apollo 11 Landing Site",
            "description": "This sequence of images from Apollo 10 looks west across southern Mare Tranquillitatis. The Apollo 11 landing site is circled in green. The bright crater at about 7 o'clock within the circle is West crater. Black and white, 70mm magazine R, AS10-31-4607 to 11. || apollo10_as10-31-4607_print.jpg (1024x345) [81.6 KB] || apollo10_as10-31-4607_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.4 KB] || apollo10_as10-31-4607_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || apollo10_as10-31-4607.tif (9600x3240) [13.8 MB] || apollo-10-photo-sequence-of-apollo-11-site.hwshow [237 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2018-04-09T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tour of the Moon 4K Redux",
            "description": "The camera flies over the lunar terrain, coming in for close looks at a variety of interesting sites and some of the LRO data associated with them. Includes narration, music, feature titles, research sources, and the location and scale of the image center. Music Provided By Killer Tracks: \"Never Looking Back\" - Frederick Wiedmann. \"Flying over Turmoil\" - Benjamin Krause & Scott Goodman.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.This video is also available on the SVS YouTube channel. || narrated.1000_print.jpg (1024x576) [197.1 KB] || moontour_narrated_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [40.4 MB] || moontour_narrated_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [458.9 MB] || moontour_narrated.en_US.srt [5.9 KB] || moontour_narrated.en_US.vtt [5.9 KB] || moontour_narrated_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.4 GB] || moontour_narrated_2160p30_prores.mov (3840x2160) [18.1 GB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4717/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2018-03-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Taurus-Littrow Valley through LRO's Eyes",
            "description": "This visualization of the Taurus-Littrow valley, site of the Apollo 17 Moon landing, uses multiple Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter datasets to zoom into the valley and illustrate the paths taken by the astronauts during their three days of exploration at the site. The data includes wide-angle (WAC) and narrow-angle (NAC) camera images, LOLA laser altimetry, and a high-resolution elevation map created from NAC stereo pairs. The imagery was chosen to approximately match the lighting conditions at the time of the landing. Color-coded trails with numbered stops (called stations in astronaut lingo) show where Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove their lunar rover — orange on day 1, blue on day 2, and green on day 3. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4505/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-10-13T00:01:00-04:00",
            "title": "Gardening Rates on the Moon",
            "description": "After simulating the distant view of a new impact, the camera zooms up to the surface to show actual before/after images of a new 12-meter crater taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter narrow-angle camera. (The impact that formed this crater wasn't seen from Earth, but a different one was.) || new_crater.0900_print.jpg (1024x576) [183.2 KB] || new_crater.0900_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.2 KB] || new_crater.0900_thm.png (80x40) [3.5 KB] || new_crater_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [17.9 MB] || new_crater_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [9.1 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || new_crater_720p30.webm (1280x720) [2.9 MB] || new_crater_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.0 MB] || new_crater_4505.key [19.1 MB] || new_crater_4505.pptx [18.8 MB] || gardening-moon-mp4.hwshow [204 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4408/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-12-15T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "LROC Earthset",
            "description": "The Earth straddling the limb of the Moon, as seen from above Compton crater (51.8°N, 124.1°E). The center of the Earth in this view is 4.05°S, 12.48°W, about 1100 kilometers due south of Sierra Leone. The large tan area in the upper right is the Sahara desert, and just beyond is the Arabian Peninsula. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left. WAC E1199291151C (Earth only), NAC M1199291564LR (Earth and Moon); sequence start time 12 October 2015 12:18:17.384 UTC. || Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch_hw3x3_print.jpg (1024x576) [102.8 KB] || Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch_hw3x3_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.5 KB] || Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch_hw3x3_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch_hw3x3.tif (5760x3240) [11.5 MB] || Earth_and_Limb_4408.key [2.7 MB] || Earth_and_Limb_4408.pptx [188.0 KB] || Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch.tif (8520x12388) [302.0 MB] || lroc-earthset-16x9-crop-color.hwshow [349 bytes] || lroc-earthset-full-frame-color.hwshow [338 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4302/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-12-08T20:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Apollo 17 Landing Site",
            "description": "Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, was the final Apollo mission to the Moon. The Lunar Module Challenger landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley on December 11, 1972 and remained there for 75 hours. The landing site is a relatively flat spot among low mountains at the southeastern edge of Mare Serenitatis.The images here are designed for display on NASA's hyperwall. They help tell the story of Apollo 17's exploration of the Taurus-Littrow site using data and imaging from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and photographs taken by the astronauts. LRO's detailed and comprehensive remote sensing capabilities have fostered a reinterpretation of the geology of the site. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4185/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-07-18T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A New Look at the Apollo 11 Landing Site",
            "description": "Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, a little after 4:00 in the afternoon Eastern Daylight Time. The Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle and flown by Neil Armstrong and Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin, touched down near the southern rim of the Sea of Tranquility, one of the large, dark basins that contribute to the Man in the Moon visible from Earth. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two hours outside the LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the LM to examine a small crater, dubbed Little West, that he'd flown over just before landing.The trails of disturbed regolith created by the astronauts' boots are still clearly visible in photographs of the landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) narrow-angle camera (LROC) more than four decades later.LROC imagery makes it possible to visit the landing site in a whole new way by flying around a three-dimensional model of the site. LROC scientists created the digital elevation model using a stereo pair of images. Each image in the pair shows the site from a slightly different angle, allowing sophisticated software to infer the shape of the terrain, similar to the way that left and right eye views are combined in the brain to produce the perception of depth.The animator draped an LROC photograph over the terrain model. He also added a 3D model of the LM descent stage—the real LM in the photograph looks oddly flat when viewed at an oblique angle.Although the area around the site is relatively flat by lunar standards, West Crater (the big brother of the crater visited by Armstrong) appears in dramatic relief near the eastern edge of the terrain model. Ejecta from West comprises the boulders that Armstrong had to avoid as he searched for a safe landing site.Apollo 11 was the first of six increasingly ambitious crewed lunar landings. The exploration of the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts, when combined with the wealth of remote sensing data now being returned by LRO, continues to inform our understanding of our nearest neighbor in space. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4220/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-06-18T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hyperwall: Tycho Central Peak",
            "description": "This image set is formatted for NASA's hyperwall, a tiled display with a combined resolution of up to 9600 x 3240.On June 10, 2011, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) slewed 65° to the west, allowing its narrow-angle camera (the LROC NAC) to capture this dramatic sunrise view of the mountains at the center of Tycho crater. It's not hard to see why this image was the winner of the Moon as Art contest.A popular target of amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.3°S, 11.4°W, and is about 85 kilometers (55 miles) wide. A system of bright ejecta rays radiating from the crater is easily visible in binoculars and small telescopes during Full Moon. The crater's features are so steep and sharp because it's only about 110 million years old, quite young by lunar standards. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4221/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-06-18T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hyperwall: Dionysius Crater",
            "description": "This image set is formatted for NASA's hyperwall, a tiled display with a combined resolution of up to 9600 x 3240.Dionysius crater (17.297°E, 2.766°N) is situated on the western edge of Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility) and excavates both bright (highland) and dark (mare) materials. Dark banded layers of mare peek out of the eastern wall, where mare material was disturbed by the impact that formed Dionysius crater. Bright talus trails wind downslope through crags and crannies in the dark mare scarps.Looking closely, the mare appears banded or striated, indicating a non-uniform material. In general, mare are thought to form from large volumes of fluid lavas, much like the Columbia River Basalts in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The stratifications in the lunar mare may represent a series of lava flows in the region. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4525/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2012-05-25T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LRO Images the May 2012 Solar Eclipse",
            "description": "A sequence of four images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter narrow-angle camera during the May 20-21, 2012 annular solar eclipse. The Moon's shadow is seen passing over Japan and the Aleutian Islands. || lroc_eclipse2012.0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [90.4 KB] || lroc_eclipse2012.0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [20.4 KB] || lroc_eclipse2012.0001_thm.png (80x40) [1.8 KB] || lroc_eclipse2012_1080p1.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || lroc_eclipse2012_720p1.mp4 (1280x720) [1.3 MB] || lroc_eclipse2012_720p1.webm (1280x720) [793.4 KB] || lroc_eclipse2012_720p1.wmv (1280x720) [953.9 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_1p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || lroc_eclipse2012_360p1.mp4 (640x360) [373.2 KB] || 5760x3240_16x9_1p (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3909/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2012-03-14T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tour of the Moon: Additional Footage",
            "description": "This is additional footage produced for the narrated version of Tour of the Moon. It supplements the visualizations in entry 3874. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3874/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-10-27T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tour of the Moon",
            "description": "Using elevation and image data returned by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this animation takes the viewer on a virtual tour of the Moon. The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a wide variety of lunar terrain features. Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space. Some are large and old (Orientale, South Pole-Aitken), others are smaller and younger (Tycho, Aristarchus). Constantly shadowed areas near the poles are hard to photograph but easier to measure with altimetry, while several of the Apollo landing sites, all relatively near the equator, have been imaged at resolutions as high as 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel.The shape of the terrain in this animation is based primarily on data from LRO's laser altimeter (LOLA), supplemented by stereo image data from its wide angle camera (LROC WAC) and from Japan's Kaguya mission. The global surface color is from Clementine. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3866/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-10-06T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LOLA Footprints II",
            "description": "LOLA, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, is an instrument for measuring the altitude of the Moon's terrain. As LRO orbits the Moon, LOLA bounces laser light off the lunar surface 28 times per second. An array of five sensors arranged in an X-shape detects the reflected light. The amount of time it takes the light to travel to the surface and back to the sensors tells the instrument how far away the surface is. Over time, LOLA builds up a complete elevation map of the Moon.This animation illustrates how the X-shaped LOLA sensor footprint travels over the lunar surface. The LOLA data track is taken from LRO orbit number 1155, on September 27, 2009, as the spacecraft passed over Amundsen crater near the lunar south pole. It begins with a distant view showing the entire crater, then switches to a view near the surface that chases the laser pulses over the central peak and across the floor of this large crater. Through most of the movie, the laser pulses are shown racing across the surface at actual speed, but at one point, the pace is slowed so that the viewer can see the sensor pattern of each individual laser pulse.The imagery of the ground view is a high-resolution photograph taken by the LRO narrow-angle camera at the same time this LOLA data track was being recorded. The shape of the terrain in all of the views is taken from LOLA elevation maps. All of this data is publicly available from the Planetary Data System's LRO archive.This is a new and improved version of entry #3758. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10818,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10818/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2011-09-06T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "New LRO Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo 12, 14, and 17 Sites",
            "description": "NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites, revealing the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored these areas. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3758/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-09-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LOLA Footprints",
            "description": "A more recent version of this animation can be found here.LOLA, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, is an instrument for measuring the altitude of the Moon's terrain. As LRO orbits the Moon, LOLA bounces laser light off the lunar surface 28 times per second. An array of five sensors arranged in an X-shape detects the reflected light. The amount of time it takes the light to travel to the surface and back to the sensors tells the instrument how far away the surface is. Over time, LOLA builds up a complete elevation map of the Moon.This animation illustrates how the X-shaped LOLA sensor footprint travels over the lunar surface. The LOLA data track is taken from LRO orbit number 1155, on September 27, 2009, as the spacecraft passed over Amundsen crater near the lunar south pole. It begins with a distant view showing the entire crater, then switches to a view near the surface that chases the laser pulses over the central peak and across the floor of this large crater. Through most of the movie, the laser pulses are shown racing across the surface at actual speed, but at one point, the pace is slowed so that the viewer can see the sensor pattern of each individual laser pulse.The imagery of the ground view is a high-resolution photograph taken by the LRO narrow-angle camera at the same time this LOLA data track was being recorded. The shape of the terrain in all of the views is taken from LOLA elevation maps. All of this data is publicly available from the Planetary Data System's LRO archive. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3634,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3634/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-17T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Shackleton's Rim Through the Eyes of LRO/LROC",
            "description": "During the Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter's (LRO) Commissioning Phase, the high resolution Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the LRO Camera (LROC) instrument captured this 0.8-meter per pixel scale (angular resolution) two-image mosaic of Shackleton Crater on the moon's south pole. Many more images of this area will be obtained by the NAC over the coming months as the lunar south pole emerges from the shadows of winter. At meter scales, the geology of this region reminds us that the polar regions of the Moon are still waiting to be explored. The rim of Shackleton crater is a prime candidate for future human exploration due to its proximity to permanently shadowed regions and nearby peaks that are illuminated for much of the year.Last year, Japan's Selene and India's Chandrayaan spacecraft gave us our first high resolution look at the lunar south pole, which includes Shackleton crater. For its size, Shackleton has an exceptionally deep and rugged interior. Usually craters fill in with time as their walls slump and material from afar is thrown in by distant impacts. Much of Shackleton's rim appears rounded and is peppered with smaller craters, indications of a relatively ancient age. Right now it is not clear if Shackleton crater is relatively old or young. This NAC image reveals a shelf on the southeast flank of the crater that is more than two kilometers across and perfectly suitable for a future landing. The extreme Sun angle exaggerates the apparent roughness, however if you look closely at this scale any area that is between small craters could be good candidates for a potential landing site. || ",
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