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            "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. || ",
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            "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. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3808/",
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            "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. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10405/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-03-26T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Moon - Resources for Finding High-Res Stills",
            "description": "Many resources exist to offer NASA's images for public access. To aid in finding some of these resources, this page gives an example image, description, and link to a few of the best.Producers interested in getting more of the film footage or stills from the Apollo missions may also contact Media Services at Johnson Space Center by calling (281) 483-4231. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10408/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-03-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LRO - Assembly and Testing Stills (High Res)",
            "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission will conduct investigations preparing for and supporting future human exploration of the moon. The LRO spacecraft will spend at least one year in a low, polar orbit, with all its six instruments working simultaneously to collect detailed information about the lunar environment. The following stills were taken during the building, integrating, and testing of the spacecraft.  You can find more images of LRO and its components at LRO's web site: http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10269/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2008-07-24T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "LRO - Animation Stills (High Resolution)",
            "description": "Custom stills for print, suitable for framing. || LRO7-Apollo-PRINT1 || LRO7-Apollo-PRINT1-notag.jpg (2340x2364) [1.9 MB] || LRO7-Apollo-PRINT1-notag_web.png (320x323) [498.7 KB] || LRO7-Apollo-PRINT1-notag.tif (2340x2364) [15.9 MB] || ",
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