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The inner blue circle shows perigee distance, the outer blue circle shows apogee distance, and the off-center, light gray circle shows the Moon's orbit. Frame sequences with alpha channel are available for the separate elements of the animation.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || moon.0600_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.6 KB] || moon.0600_searchweb.png (180x320) [35.4 KB] || moon.0600_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || supermoon_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || supermoon_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [2.4 MB] || fancy (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || moon_earth (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || orbit (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || supermoon_720p30.webm (1280x720) [2.2 MB] || supermoon_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [1.0 MB] || 320x320_1x1_30p (320x320) [0 Item(s)] || 360x230_36x23_30p (360x230) [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 4310, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4310/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Phases Loop", "description": "A looping animation showing a complete cycle of average lunar phases. || moon.0060_print.jpg (1024x576) [57.1 KB] || moon.0060_searchweb.png (320x180) [33.1 KB] || moon.0060_thm.png (80x40) [3.1 KB] || moon_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [1.5 MB] || moon_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [3.4 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [16.0 KB] || moon_720p30.webm (1280x720) [873.0 KB] || moon_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [11.6 MB] || moon_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [401.5 KB] || 5760x3240_16x9_30p (5760x3240) [16.0 KB] || moon_1080p30_4310.pptx [3.9 MB] || moon_1080p30_4310.key [6.3 MB] || ", "hits": 1263 }, { "id": 4253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4253/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-04T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, from the Other Side", "description": "This narrated video introduces two views of the Moon's far side. Transcript.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || opposite.0820_print.jpg (1024x576) [158.8 KB] || opposite.0820_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [75.4 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [50.7 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_appletv.m4v (960x540) [43.3 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_appletv.webm (960x540) [13.8 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [43.2 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [34.9 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [19.0 MB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || G2015-013_ViewfromOtherSide_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [9.0 MB] || ", "hits": 744 }, { "id": 4236, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4236/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-12-09T06:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2015", "description": " || New: Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator. The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [92.5 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] || ", "hits": 244 }, { "id": 4237, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4237/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-12-09T06:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2015 South Up", "description": " || New: Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator. The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [92.6 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 4193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4193/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-08-08T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Supermoon 2014", "description": "On August 10, 2014, the Moon will be full at the same time that it is closest to Earth for the year. This coincidence is sometimes called a supermoon.The Moon's orbit is very slightly elliptical and therefore somewhat off-center relative to the Earth. Each month, the Moon passes through points in its orbit called perigee and apogee, the closest and farthest points from the Earth for that month. Some perigees are a little closer than others. The closest perigee for 2014 occurs on August 10 at around 17:49 Universal Time, when the Moon will be 356,896 kilometers (221,765 miles) away. As it happens, this is only a few minutes before the time of peak full Moon at 18:10 UT, when the Moon's ecliptic longitude differs from the Sun's by exactly 180 degrees.How often does this happen? The period between perigees, called the anomalistic month, is 27.55 days, on average, while the time between Full Moons, called the synodic month, is 29.53 days. These two periods sync up every 413 days, or 1.13 years. 15 anomalistic months are about as long as 14 synodic months, so that's how often the pattern repeats.Recently, a much broader definition of \"supermoon\" has taken hold. It includes both Full and New Moons, and perigee merely needs to be \"close enough,\" generally within a couple of days. By this definition, there are six or seven supermoons every year, half of which can't be observed. Not so super!The actual shape of the Moon's orbit is another source of confusion. The orbit is often depicted as an almost cigar-shaped ellipse, but this is a misleading exaggeration. If you were to draw the orbit on a sheet of paper, its deviation from a perfect circle would be less than the thickness of your pencil point. The 50,000 kilometer (30,000 mile) difference between perigee and apogee is almost entirely due to the orbit being off-center. The difference between the semimajor and semiminor axes is less than 1000 kilometers (600 miles).The animation begins in mid-July, showing that perigee and Full Moon miss each other by about a day. It then shows apogee on July 28, when the Moon is almost 32 Earth diameters away. It ends on August 10, the day of the supermoon, when the distance to the Moon is 28 Earth diameters. The Moon graphic in the upper left shows the change in the Moon's apparent size as it moves closer and farther in its orbit. (The relative sizes of the Earth and Moon in the main orbit graphic are exaggerated by a factor of 15 to make them more easily visible.) || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 11569, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11569/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Moon As Art Contest", "description": "To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission decided to hold a contest to pick a cover image for \"The Moon As Art\" collection.This collection features a variety of beautiful visuals that were created using data gathered by LRO over the first 4.5 years of operations. 5 images were selected by the LRO team to put up for a public vote. Did your favorite image win? Watch this video to find out! || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 4226, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4226/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall: LOLA Slope Map", "description": "Part of the LOLA slope map of the Moon centered on the south pole. The prime meridian (0° longitude) is up. || slope_map_3x1_print.jpg (1024x345) [284.4 KB] || slope_map_3x1_web.jpg (320x108) [25.0 KB] || slope_map_3x1_searchweb.png (320x180) [154.5 KB] || slope_map_3x1_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || slope_map_3x1.tif (9600x3240) [80.7 MB] || slope_map_16x9.tif (5760x3240) [49.6 MB] || lola-slope-map.hwshow || ", "hits": 261 }, { "id": 4129, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4129/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary", "description": "In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth.Using photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this video commemorates the 45th anniversary of Apollo 8's historic flight by recreating the moment when the crew first saw and photographed the Earth rising from behind the Moon. Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon, sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view from both inside and outside the spacecraft accompanied by the onboard audio of the astronauts.The visualization draws on numerous historical sources, including the actual cloud pattern on Earth from the ESSA-7 satellite and dozens of photographs taken by Apollo 8, and it reveals new, historically significant information about the Earthrise photographs. It has not been widely known, for example, that the spacecraft was rolling when the photos were taken, and that it was this roll that brought the Earth into view. The visualization establishes the precise timing of the roll and, for the first time ever, identifies which window each photograph was taken from.The key to the new work is a set of vertical stereo photographs taken by a camera mounted in the Command Module's rendezvous window and pointing straight down onto the lunar surface. It automatically photographed the surface every 20 seconds. By registering each photograph to a model of the terrain based on LRO data, the orientation of the spacecraft can be precisely determined.Andrew Chaikin's article Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? appeared in the January, 2018 issue of Smithsonian magazine. It includes the story of the making of this visualization.A Google Hangout discussion of this visualization between Ernie Wright (creator of the visualization), Andrew Chaikin, John Keller (LRO project scientist), and Aries Keck (NASA media specialist) was held on December 20, 2013. A replay of that hangout is available here.Ernie Wright presented a talk about the making of this animation at the 2014 SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver. He also wrote a NASA Wavelength blog entry about Earthrise that includes links to educator resources related to LRO. || ", "hits": 1175 }, { "id": 4118, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4118/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-06T00:01:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2014", "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [27.9 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || ", "hits": 169 }, { "id": 4119, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4119/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-06T00:01:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2014 South Up", "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [27.7 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 4109, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4109/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-10-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Far Side: From Luna 3 to LRO", "description": "In October of 1959, the Luna 3 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Luna 3 was the third spacecraft to reach the Moon and the first to send back pictures of the Moon's far side. The pictures were noisy and indistinct, but because the Moon always presents the same face to the Earth, they offered views of a part of the Moon that had never been seen before.The far side of the Moon is surprisingly different. The most striking difference evident in the Luna 3 pictures is the absence of the large, dark seas of cooled lava, called maria, that cover a substantial fraction of the Earth-facing near side. The far side is instead densely peppered with impact craters of every size and age.Fifty years later, in June of 2009, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Using LRO's global elevation maps and photographic mosaics, both of which are of unprecedented quality and detail, it's possible to accurately recreate the view captured in the pictures from Luna 3. As seen here, Luna 3 was directly over 12°N 120°E at a distance of 61,700 kilometers above the surface, and its camera was banked 17.5° clockwise from vertical relative to the Moon's north pole.The thicker blue longitude line at 90°E, along the left side of the LRO image, marks the boundary between the near and far sides of the Moon. To the left of that line are the familiar maria Crisium (the circular spot near the 9 o'clock position), Marginis, Smythii (both east of Crisium), Humboldtianum (in the north), Australe (near the south pole), and the eastern edge of Fecunditatis. The bright spot near the center of the disk is a complex of unnamed craters bordered by King, Langemak, Gregory, and Abul Wafa craters. The brightness is enhanced because it's near the subsolar point. The dark, sharp-edged shield shape in the southern hemisphere, with the white dot in the middle, is Tsiolkovskiy crater and its central peak. The dark spot to the southeast of Tsiolkovskiy is the crater Jules Verne. The mare in the northeast is Moscoviense. || ", "hits": 1736 }, { "id": 4107, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4107/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-09-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Map for InOMN 2013", "description": "October 12, 2013 is International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), an annual public outreach event that encourages people from around the world to look up at our nearest neighbor in space. The map on this page was produced as an observing aid for the event. It shows the phase and libration of the Moon for noon Universal Time on the date of the event, with labels for many of the features that are visible on that date. A corresponding observing list is available as a PDF.The list includes items visible with the naked eye and with binoculars as well as telescopic targets. The Moon is just past First Quarter. Naked eye observers can see the shape and orientation of the daylit side and the difference in brightness of the northern and southern parts. They can probably make out the two largest maria, the Seas of Serenity and Tranquility. Those with keen eyes might also discern several less prominent maria, as well as a couple of bright spots near the southeastern limb.These bright spots, near the craters Langrenus and Stevinus, are easier to see in binoculars, which will also show the Apennine Mountains and the irregularity of the terminator, the line between day and night. A telescope reveals that the terminator crosses a densely cratered region in the south, and elsewhere, it can resolve long, cliff-like scarps and the remnants of an extinct volcano. Although Apollo artifacts can't be seen by any Earthbound telescope, four of the six landing sites are in daylight at First Quarter. || ", "hits": 336 }, { "id": 4084, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4084/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-06-21T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "Supermoon 2013", "description": "On June 23, 2013, the Moon will be full at the same time that it is closest to Earth for the year. This coincidence is sometimes called a supermoon.The Moon's orbit is slightly elliptical and therefore a little off-center relative to the Earth. Each month, the Moon passes through points in its orbit called perigee and apogee, the closest and farthest points from the Earth for that month. Some perigees are a little closer than others. The closest perigee for 2013 occurs on June 23 at around 11:18 Universal Time, when the Moon will be 356,991 kilometers (221,824 miles) away. As it happens, this is only a few minutes before the time of peak full Moon at 11:32 UT, when the Moon's ecliptic longitude differs from the Sun's by exactly 180 degrees.How often does this happen? The period between perigees, called the anomalistic month, is 27.55 days. The time between full Moons, called the synodic month, is 29.53 days. These two periods sync up every 413 days, or 1.13 years. 15 anomalistic months are about as long as 14 synodic months. So that's how often the pattern repeats.The animation begins in May, showing that perigee and full Moon miss each other by about a day. It then shows apogee on June 9, when the Moon is almost 32 Earth diameters away. It ends on June 23, the day of the supermoon, when the distance to the Moon is 28 Earth diameters. The Moon graphic in the upper left shows the change in the Moon's apparent size as it moves closer and farther in its orbit. (The relative sizes of the Earth and Moon in the main orbit graphic are exaggerated by a factor of 15 to make them more easily visible.)By another coincidence, the supermoon occurs just two days after the northern summer solstice, when the Sun reaches its highest point in the northern hemisphere sky. The second animation shows the relationship between the Sun and the Earth at both the summer and winter solstice. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 4075, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4075/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Transit from Solar Dynamics Observatory (2010)", "description": "Just as we do on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite periodically crosses the Moon's shadow and experiences a solar eclipse. During the eclipse witnessed by SDO on October 7, 2010, the southern hemisphere of the Moon was silhouetted against the solar disk, revealing some especially prominent mountain peaks near the Moon's south pole. By using elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to visualize the Moon from SDO's point of view, it's possible to identify these peaks. Although all of these are well-known features, all but one of them have no official names. The following list corresponds to the labels in the animation, from left to right.In his 1954 sketch of the lunar south pole, astronomer Ewen Whitaker labeled this feature \"M3.\" It's a mountain about halfway between the craters Cabeus and Drygalski, at 83.2°S 68°W.Whitaker's \"M1,\" a mountain on the northern rim of Cabeus, 83.4°S 33°W.A mountain on the southern rim of Malapert crater, about halfway between the centers of Malapert and Haworth. Whitaker labels this Malapert Alpha. It's also known as Mons Malapert or Malapert Peak. 85.8°S 0°E.Labeled Leibnitz Beta by Whitaker and now officially named Mons Mouton, this is part of the highlands adjacent to the northern rim of Nobile crater. 84°S 37°E. Part of the Leibnitz mountain range first identified by Johann Schröter in the late 1700s, unrelated to Leibnitz Crater on the lunar far side.A mountain near Amundsen crater, on the western (Earthward) rim of Hédervári crater, 82.2°S 75°E. Whitaker tentatively labels this Leibnitz Epsilon in his sketch.The Moon visualization uses the latest albedo and elevation maps from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 4067, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4067/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-06-05T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2013 South Up", "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0002.jpg (730x730) [94.7 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || ", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 4054, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4054/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-03-19T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "LAMP Observes GRAIL Impact", "description": "The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission comprised a pair of satellites that together measured the gravity field of the Moon. GRAIL ended its mission with a planned impact into the side of a lunar mountain on December 17, 2012. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) maneuvered into an orbit that would allow it to observe the impact. One of LRO's instruments, the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), looked for the chemical signatures of a number of elements, including hydrogen and mercury, in the dust plume kicked up by the impact.This animation shows the relative positions of GRAIL and LRO at the time of the impact, as well as the view from LAMP as it scanned for the dust plume. The LAMP sensor is a 6.0° x 0.3° slit that was positioned to look over the limb of the Moon, so that it would be pointed into the tenuous dust plume with only the sky in the background. This observation was possible, in part, because GRAIL impacted on the night side of the Moon, where there was no concern that LAMP's sensitive detector could be blinded by sunlit terrain. From Earth, the Moon was a waxing crescent at the time of the impact. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "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": 538 }, { "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": 1155 }, { "id": 11137, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11137/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon", "description": "As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.The iconic image traveled nearly 240,000 miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) Station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, to the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on the spacecraft. By transmitting the image piggyback on laser pulses that are routinely sent to track LOLA's position, the team achieved simultaneous laser communication and tracking.To learn more about how it happened, watch the video below! || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 4000, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4000/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-11-20T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2013", "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0002.jpg (730x730) [94.6 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || ", "hits": 394 }, { "id": 3917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3917/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-03-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall: Three Moon Sites", "description": "Using elevation data returned by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), these hyperwall-resolution animations visit three prominent features on the Moon's near side. || ", "hits": 226 }, { "id": 3909, "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. || ", "hits": 373 }, { "id": 10929, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10929/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Narrated Tour of the Moon", "description": "Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. See some of the sights and learn more about the moon here! || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 10930, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10930/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Evolution of the Moon", "description": "From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video!This entry contains the Evolution of the Moon video in mutliple formats, including stereoscopic 3D in both side-by-side and individual left/right channel versions. It also includes a narrated and non-narrated version. Each individual video is labeled to make it easier to find the version that works for you! || ", "hits": 278 }, { "id": 3894, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3894/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2012", "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [67.4 KB] || moon.0001.tif (1920x1080) [1.1 MB] || ", "hits": 484 }, { "id": 3874, "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. || ", "hits": 466 }, { "id": 3866, "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. || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 3836, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3836/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-06-29T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO at the June 15, 2011 Lunar Eclipse: View from the Moon", "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 the view of the eclipse from the Moon, looking back toward the Earth and the Sun. On the Moon, this event is a solar eclipse. As the Sun disappears behind the Earth, the umbral shadow sweeps across the lunar landscape, and as our eyes adjust to the darkness, the stars come out, and the lunar surface looks a dull red. The atmosphere of the Earth lights up as a red ring around the planet, the sunrises and sunsets all around the edge of the globe lending their faint light to the Moon while the Sun is otherwise blocked. At the start of the eclipse, Australia is facing us, but over time, the Moon sets in eastern Australia while southern Africa rotates into view. LRO streaks through the frame several times on its orbit 50 kilometers above the Moon's surface.Other visualizations in this series depict the view of the eclipsealong the shadow line, with the figures of the umbra, penumbra, and lunar and solar pathsthrough a telescope on Earthflying above LRO as Diviner takes temperature measurementsA narrated piece that uses these visualizations is available in entry #10794. For an explanation of lunar eclipses, visit entry #10787. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 3810, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3810/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-06-13T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2011", "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [36.2 KB] || moon.0001.tif (1920x1080) [852.2 KB] || ", "hits": 578 }, { "id": 3834, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3834/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO at the June 15, 2011 Lunar Eclipse: Earth View", "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 the eclipse as it might appear through a telescope on Earth (except that you can't see LRO in such a telescope). Celestial north is up. As the Moon enters the umbra (the part of the shadow in which the Sun is completely blocked by the Earth), the shadowed side of the Moon appears black while the sunlit side remains bright. Only when the Moon is almost completely within the umbra is it possible to see the faint red glow of the shadowed side, some 10,000 times fainter than the sunlit Moon. The redness is sunlight filtered and refracted by Earth's atmosphere. The same effect reddens sunrises and sunsets on Earth.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 pathsflying above LRO as Diviner takes temperature measurementsA narrated piece that uses these visualizations is available in entry #10794. For an explanation of lunar eclipses, visit entry #10787. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "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": 78 }, { "id": 10757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10757/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-04-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Intro to LIDAR 3D", "description": "Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help. Learn more in this video!This video is presented in stereoscopic 3D for those who can view it. We've included left and right eye clips, a side-by-side version, and an anaglyph (red/blue) version. Download any of them below! || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 10697, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10697/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-12-17T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "LOLA AGU Presentation Support", "description": "NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete elevation map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 3808, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3808/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "LOLA Stills for AGU 2010", "description": "These high resolution still images illustrate the global elevation map of the Moon being developed by the laser altimeter (LOLA) on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. To date, LOLA has measured the elevation of over two billion points on the surface of the Moon. These measurements make it possible to render shaded relief maps of the Moon with unprecedented accuracy and detail. See also this comparison of LOLA with past maps.The waning gibbous Moon is rendered from three points of view. For each view, a natural color image is paired with a false color version in which low elevations are blue to green and high elevations are yellow to red. The terrain is in highest relief near the terminator, or shadow line, where the Sun is setting on a month-long lunar day. Amateur astronomers pay particular attention to features near the terminator, since the high relief brings out details that are normally washed out in the glare of reflected sunlight. || ", "hits": 213 }, { "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": 64 }, { "id": 3662, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3662/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-09-16T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Counting Craters on the Moon", "description": "Craters light up in an east to west (Tranquillitatis toward Orientale) sweep around the Moon.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || crater_count.0900.jpg (1280x720) [160.5 KB] || crater_count.0900_web.png (320x180) [52.4 KB] || crater_count.0900_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || crater_count.mp4 (1280x720) [6.4 MB] || crater_count_720p.m2v (1280x720) [53.8 MB] || 1280x720_16x9_30p (1280x720) [64.0 KB] || crater_count.webmhd.webm (960x540) [6.8 MB] || crater_count_cbar_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [8.3 MB] || crater_count_512x288.m1v (512x288) [9.8 MB] || a003662_320.m1v (320x180) [4.0 MB] || ", "hits": 471 }, { "id": 3758, "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. || ", "hits": 255 }, { "id": 3730, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3730/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Topography: ULCN versus LOLA", "description": "This animation illustrates the dramatic improvement in our knowledge of the Moon's terrain made possible by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. A LOLA digital elevation map compiled in late 2009 is compared to the Unified Lunar Control Network (ULCN) 2005, a painstakingly constructed map based on the best available data at the time, including imagery from the Clementine, Apollo, Mariner 10, and Galileo missions as well as Earth-based observations.The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. The LOLA data used to create this media is available to the public in the LOLA archive of the PDS Geosciences node. || ", "hits": 358 }, { "id": 3731, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3731/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LOLA: Lunar Topography in Natural Color", "description": "This animation is a brief tour of several prominent features of the Moon's terrain: Tycho crater, the south pole, and the South Pole-Aitken basin. It is match-moved to a companion piece showing the terrain elevations in false color.This is an update of animation 3594, which was produced before the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Except for the Tycho crater inset, the elevation map in this updated version is based entirely on early results of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter onboard LRO.The surface appearance is derived from photographs taken by the Clementine spacecraft. Although it shows the visible surface in natural color, this animation does not depict realistic sunlight and shadows. This is especially significant near the poles, where certain parts of the terrain can be in permanent shadow and would never be fully visible in the manner depicted here. || ", "hits": 316 }, { "id": 3727, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3727/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LOLA Lunar Topography in False Color", "description": "This animation is a brief tour of several prominent features of the Moon's terrain: Tycho crater, the south pole, and the South Pole-Aitken basin. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. The view is match-moved to a companion piece showing the Moon in natural colors.This is an update of animation 3582, which was produced before the launch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Except for the Tycho crater inset, the elevation map in this updated version is based entirely on early results of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter onboard LRO. These results already represent a substantial improvement in our knowledge of the Moon's topography. || ", "hits": 426 }, { "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": 90 }, { "id": 3686, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3686/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-03-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO/LOLA Lunar South Pole Flyover", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter (LRO) was launched on June 18, 2009. Its mission is to map the moon's surface, find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. One of the instruments on board is the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) which measures landing site slopes, lunar surface roughness, and has begun generation of a high resolution 3D map of the Moon.This visualization uses Clementine data for the global view of the moon, but then transitions to using only LRO/LOLA DEM with a neutral gray texture when flying around the lunar south pole. The DEM by itself creates an amazingly realistic view of the lunar southpole. As better maps are created from the other instruments aboard LRO, an even clearer picture of the moon will emerge.Please note that this visualization is match-frame rendered to The Moon's South Pole in 3D via LRO/LOLA First Light Data (#3633). || ", "hits": 308 }, { "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": 103 }, { "id": 10486, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10486/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LOLA: Defining the Lunar Terrain", "description": "The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on board NASA's LRO spacecraft will be responsible for building the highest detail topography currently available of the lunar terrain. In this video David Smith, LOLA's Principal Investigator, explains how this technology works.For complete transcript, click here. || LOLAvideo_ipod.00502_print.jpg (1024x576) [28.3 KB] || LOLAvideo_ipod_web.png (320x180) [41.6 KB] || LOLAvideo_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || LOLAvideo_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [43.0 MB] || LOLAvideo_appletv.m4v (960x540) [99.2 MB] || LOLAvideo_youtube.mov (1280x720) [58.9 MB] || LOLAvideo_h264.mov (1280x720) [301.3 MB] || LOLAvideo_prores.mov (1280x720) [3.6 GB] || LOLAvideo_ipod.m4v (640x360) [45.4 MB] || LOLAvideo_ipodsm.m4v (320x180) [16.6 MB] || LOLAvideo_portal.wmv (320x236) [20.0 MB] || LOLAvideo_SVS.mpg (512x288) [35.2 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 10528, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10528/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Early Results Press Conference", "description": "NASA showcased new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's seven instruments and provided updates about the topography of the moon's south pole during a news conference on September 17. NASA also provided an update about the spacecraft's status and mission plans. The briefing took place at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (no transcript available) || LRO_1stResults_PressConf_ipod.00002_print.jpg (1024x576) [115.7 KB] || LRO_1stResults_PressConf_ipod_web.png (320x180) [138.1 KB] || LRO_1stResults_PressConf_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [16.1 KB] || LRO_1stResults_PC_appleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [499.4 MB] || LRO_1stResults_PC_appleTV.m4v (960x540) [1.4 GB] || LRO_1stResults_PressConf_ipod.m4v (640x360) [586.3 MB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 3633, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3633/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Moon's South Pole in 3D via LRO/LOLA First Light Data", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Oribiter (LRO) was launched on June 18, 2009. Its mission is to map the moon's surface, find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. One of the instruments on board is the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) which measures landing site slopes, lunar surface roughness, and has begun generation of a high resolution 3D map of the Moon. The animation depicted here is the beginning of LOLA's mapping project and shows the lunar south pole through digital elevation map data collected by the LOLA instrument during the spacecraft commissioning phase. During the commissioning phase, LRO was in a highly elliptical orbit coming closer to the lunar south pole than the north pole. Furthermore, since LOLA uses laser pulses to measure the surface, the accuracy of its measurements are greatly affected by the instrument's distance to the surface. This is why there is virtually no data of the lunar north pole, and much better coverage of the south pole. The topographic data shown here is currently processed to show at approximately 30 meters per pixel.The colors in this animation depict the relative heights of the lunar surface with respect to the surface mean. Warm colors (brown, red, magenta, and tan) indicate areas above the mean. Cooler colors (green, cyan, blue, and violet) are areas below the mean. || ", "hits": 247 }, { "id": 10479, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10479/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Tour of the LRO Instrument Suite", "description": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Vondrak explains the LRO suite of instruments and how each will greatly benefit our understanding of the Moon.For complete transcript, click here. || LRO_vondrak_ipod.02402_print.jpg (1024x576) [90.1 KB] || LRO_vondrak_ipod_web.png (320x180) [177.9 KB] || LRO_vondrak_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [16.3 KB] || LRO_vondrak_ipod.webmhd.webm (960x540) [46.3 MB] || LRO_vondrak_ipod.m4v (640x360) [70.8 MB] || LRO_vondrak.wmv (320x236) [37.5 MB] || LRO_vondrak_nasacast.mp4 (320x176) [21.6 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 3587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3587/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites - Stereoscopic Version", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.This visualization is a modified 3D stereo version of animation entry:#10349: LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites.The raw stereoscopic visualization sequence used to create this narrated animation can be viewed and downloaded from entry: #3567: How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon - Stereoscopic Version. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10349, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10349/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites (Narrated)", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.The raw animation sequences used to create this video feature as well as high resolution stills from the video can be viewed and downloaded from How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon (#3533). || ", "hits": 20 }, { "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": 114 }, { "id": 10201, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10201/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-04-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Instrument Integrations", "description": "The LRO payload, comprised of six instruments and one technology demonstration, will provide key data sets to enable a human return to the moon. Though built at a variety of partner institutions, all of LRO's instruments were integrated onto the spacecraft at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. || ", "hits": 72 } ] }