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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] || ", "hits": 664 }, { "id": 4574, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4574/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-05-31T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Temperature, Reflectance Point to Frost near the Moon's Poles", "description": "A view of the south pole of the Moon showing where reflectance and temperature data indicate the possible presence of surface water ice. Includes music and narration. Music by Killer Tracks: Full Charge - Zubin Thakkar. || 4574_LROMoonFrost_YouTube.00780_print.jpg (1024x576) [236.8 KB] || 4574_LROMoonFrost_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [75.8 MB] || 4574_LROMoonFrost_Facebook.mp4 (1280x720) [65.4 MB] || 4574_LROMoonFrost_Twitter.mp4 (1280x720) [11.8 MB] || 4574_LROMoonFrost_Facebook.webm (1280x720) [5.2 MB] || 4574_LROMoonFrost_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [639.4 MB] || 4574_LroMoonFrost_Captions.en_US.srt [761 bytes] || 4574_LroMoonFrost_Captions.en_US.vtt [774 bytes] || 4574_LROMoonFrost_YouTube.mp4.hwshow [191 bytes] || ", "hits": 243 }, { "id": 4043, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4043/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-03-06T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "LRO Peers into Permanent Shadows", "description": "The Moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, are places on the Moon that haven't seen the Sun in millions, or even billions, of years. The Earth's tilted axis allows sunlight to fall everywhere on its surface, even at the poles, for at least part of the year. But the Moon's tilt relative to the Sun is only 1.6°, not enough to get sunlight into some deep craters near the lunar north and south poles. PSRs are therefore some of the coldest, darkest places in the solar system.Because of that, PSRs are expected to be excellent traps for volatiles, chemicals that would normally vaporize and escape into space, and this includes water. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) includes several instruments designed to peer into the PSR darkness and measure temperature, reflectivity, and neutron absorption, all of which are clues to what chemicals might be hiding there. This animation shows where the PSRs are and in what ways LRO can see inside them. || ", "hits": 874 }, { "id": 11218, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11218/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-03-06T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Moon's Permanently Shadowed Regions", "description": "As you watch the Moon over the course of a month, you'll notice that different features are illuminated by the Sun at different times. However, there are some parts of the Moon that never see sunlight. These areas are called permanently shadowed regions, and they appear dark because unlike on the Earth, the axis of the Moon is nearly perpendicular to the direction of the sun's light. The result is that the bottoms of certain craters are never pointed toward the Sun, with some remaining dark for over two billion years. However, thanks to new data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can now see into these dark craters in incredible detail. || ", "hits": 1047 }, { "id": 10794, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10794/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-17T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO's Diviner Takes the Moon's Temperature During Eclipse", "description": "During the June 2011 lunar eclipse, scientists will be able to get a unique view of the moon. While the sun is blocked by the Earth, LRO's Diviner instrument will take the temperature on the lunar surface. Since different rock sizes cool at different rates, scientists will be able to infer the size and density of rocks on the moon. || ", "hits": 465 }, { "id": 3835, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3835/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO's Diviner during the June 15, 2011 Lunar Eclipse", "description": "For Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the lunar eclipse on June 15, 2011 is likely to be the longest and darkest of its life. This matters because LRO relies on sunlight to power its systems and instruments. Although it spends half of every orbit on the night side of the Moon, each night side pass lasts only an hour. For the June 15 eclipse, LRO will be in the dark for more than twice as long.During a previous total eclipse, LRO hibernated, turning off all of its instruments to conserve its battery power until the Moon emerged from the Earth's shadow. For the June 15 event, LRO will leave on the Diviner Lunar Radiometry Experiment. Diviner will measure the cooling of the Moon's surface during the eclipse. This unique temperature record is expected to reveal information about the roughness and composition of the swath of lunar surface visible to Diviner's sensors during the eclipse.The visualization archived on this page shows LRO flying over the lunar surface during the darkest part of the eclipse, with Diviner measuring temperatures along a swath about 3.5 kilometers wide. LRO will pass this part of the surface again during the eclipse, and it will tilt a bit so that Diviner can point at the same strip of lunar surface. The difference between the two temperature readings gives the rate of cooling at each point along the swath.Other visualizations in this series depict the view of the eclipsefrom the Moon, where the event is a solar eclipsealong the shadow line, with the figures of the umbra, penumbra, and lunar and solar pathsthrough a telescope on EarthA narrated piece that uses these visualizations is in entry #10794. For an explanation of lunar eclipses, visit entry #10787. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 3760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3760/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-21T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Supports LCROSS", "description": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) were launched together on the same Atlas V rocket on June 18, 2009. Months later, after following very different paths to the moon, LRO and LCROSS met once more. LCROSS struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. LRO witnessed the impact from its orbit 50 kilometers (30 miles) above the surface.The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith. LRO's early reconnaissance of the moon gave LCROSS mission planners valuable data in the months before LCROSS arrived, allowing them to choose an impact site with a high probability of producing interesting findings. LRO was also there for the event itself, using its array of instruments to gather data in the aftermath of the impact.This animation shows LRO and LCROSS from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the impact. Data gathered before the impact is represented by early results from LRO's Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND). LEND can sense hydrogen, and therefore possible water, in the lunar soil. The area of high hydrogen concentration in Cabeus (purple) is like a bullseye for LCROSS.Data gathered by LRO after the impact is represented by Diviner temperature measurements taken seconds after the crash. Diviner detected the heat from lunar soil melted and vaporized by the enormous energy of the impact. || ", "hits": 319 }, { "id": 10684, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10684/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-10-21T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Supports LCROSS - Quicktime and Windows Media versions", "description": "This video shows how the LEND instrument was used to help locate an ideal impact site for the LCROSS spacecraft. 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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, by observing the impact of the LCROSS spacecraft, helped contribute to these new findings. || ", "hits": 174 }, { "id": 3690, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3690/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-03-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Releases Data to the Planetary Data System", "description": "On March 15, 2010, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) released its first installment of scientific data to NASA's public archive for planetary data, the Planetary Data System (PDS). This animation highlights several of the datasets made available through the PDS by the LOLA, LEND, and Diviner instruments on LRO. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 10483, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10483/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Early Results Press Conference Visuals", "description": "These are the visuals used to support the LRO Press Conference \"NASA's LRO Mission Mapping Lunar South Pole in Uprecedented Detail\" held on September 17, 2009 at Goddard Space Flight Center. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 10334, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10334/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO/LCROSS Launch, Deploy, and Mission Animation", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or LRO will give scientists more information about the structure of the Moon's interior; the types of rock found there, events that shaped it, and the conditions that exist at the surface. LRO will spend one year in a polar orbit collecting this information. LRO's instrument suite will provide the highest resolution and the most comprehensive data set and the most detailed maps ever returned from the moon. It will carry an additional payload called LCROSS. The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon's polar craters with two heavy impactors to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater's surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated material. || ", "hits": 296 } ] }