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This video provides a snapshot of the flight from the field and describes the challenges faced with weather and terrain. All instruments collected data for several glaciers before the weather conditions forced an early return to Punta Arenas. || ", "hits": 109 }, { "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": 353 }, { "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": 293 }, { "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": 121 }, { "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": 214 }, { "id": 3654, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3654/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-09T13:35:00-04:00", "title": "Modeling the LCROSS Impact Site", "description": "A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. 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. The effects of the impact were captured by sensors onboard a shepherding satellite travelling four minutes behind the Centaur. They were also watched by Earth-based observatories and several Earth-orbiting satellites, including the Hubble Space Telescope.The images here were created in the weeks prior to the impact. They visualize the viewing angle, terrain, and shadows around the target crater at the time of the impact. Astronomers in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Hawaii used them as visual reference while guiding their telescopes. LCROSS project scientists also used these and similar images to evaluate a number of potential impact locations.Using the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE421 ephemeris and early terrain data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's laser altimeter, the artist was able to accurately depict the sunlight direction, shadows, moon orientation, terrain, and field of view for several representative observing locations on the Earth. || ", "hits": 283 }, { "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": 291 }, { "id": 3577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3577/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Permanent Shadows on the Moon", "description": "As the Earth and Moon orbit around the Sun, there are places on the Moon that never receive direct sunlight. Most of these permanently shadowed regions are at the lunar poles. This animation approximates the permanently shadowned regions pertaining to the Moon's south pole by maintaining a maximum sun angle to the surface of 1.5 degrees. These permanently shadowed areas are of interest because they could hold water ice. (NOTE: South Pole Digital Elevation Maps [DEM] based on publically released JAXA/Selene data.) || ", "hits": 520 }, { "id": 3576, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3576/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-05-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Ground Track", "description": "A satellite's ground track shows the path of its orbit on the surface of the parent body. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be placed in a nearly circular polar orbit about 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the surface of the Moon, completing each orbit in a little less than two hours. The orientation of this orbit remains fixed in space, relative to the stars, while the Moon slowly rotates beneath it as they travel together around the Earth, allowing LRO to scan the entire surface of the Moon every two weeks.As this animation shows, the density of the ground coverage provided by a polar orbit is greatest at the poles. For the Moon, this is also where a great deal of current interest lies, since permanently shadowed areas at the poles may harbor water ice. This is also where some high-altitude areas are in gentle but perennial sunlight, providing the lighting and power supply for extended human exploration.The animation depicts LRO's ground track over a period of seven days (89 orbits). The elevation map comprises low-resolution data from a number of sources, including the Clementine and JAXA/SELENE spacecraft, combined with high-resolution insets for the regions near the poles. The surface color is derived from photographs taken by Clementine. || ", "hits": 147 }, { "id": 3582, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3582/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-04-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Topography in False Color", "description": "An updated version of this animation is available here.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.The elevation map comprises low-resolution data from a number of sources, including the Clementine and JAXA/SELENE spacecraft, combined with high-resolution insets for Tycho and the region near the south pole. One of the goals of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is the creation of a high-resolution elevation map of the entire surface of the Moon. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 3594, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3594/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-04-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Topography in Natural Color", "description": "An updated version of this animation is available here.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.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": 79 }, { "id": 3039, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3039/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-10-29T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat Cloud Walls (scripted camera path)", "description": "This is an animation showing data from ICESat's Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). Cloud data can be seen over about 15 orbits on October 6, 2003. The data are initially laid out in the order that is was collected followed by continued movement around the scene. This version of the animation starts with the full globe, moves south to Antarctica, over the pole, then north to Africa, around the world near the equator and finally to the north pole. || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 2964, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2964/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-07-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAGE Views of the Aurora from Space", "description": "The IMAGE spacecraft observed intense auroral displays in the Fall of 2003 as the material from the coronal mass ejection swept past the Earth. The pressure against the Earth's magnetosphere caused it to dump more electrons into the upper atmosphere, creating auroral displays, as we see here over the South Pole. This is a view of the IMAGE data reprojected onto a model of the Earth. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 2434, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2434/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-04-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "South Pole Sea Ice 1990-1999", "description": "Animation of ten years of sea ice data, from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSMI). || Sea Ice, South Pole, 1990 - 1999. NOTE! This is a large animation! || a002434.00100_print.png (720x480) [422.7 KB] || southice_pre.jpg (320x240) [10.4 KB] || a002434.webmhd.webm (960x540) [32.3 MB] || a002434.dv (720x480) [446.2 MB] || southice.mpg (320x240) [16.4 MB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 680, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/680/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "True Color Moon using USGS Airbrush Texture", "description": "True color moon using a USGS Airbrush Texture showing the south pole, the crash site of the Lunar Prospector. || ", "hits": 170 }, { "id": 681, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/681/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating False Color Moon with Flip Showing the South Pole", "description": "False color moon from Lunar Prospector data with flip showing the south pole, site of the Lunar Prospector crash site. (unmarked) || ", "hits": 156 } ] }