True Color Moon Rotation with Flip Showing the Crash Site of the Lunar Prospector

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on July 23, 1999

This visualization shows the crash site of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft using a true color version of the moon from a USGS airbrush texture.

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Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Animator
Lisa Chu-Thielbar (NASA/ARC): Scientist
David J. Lawrence (Los Alamos National Laboratory): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
QuikSCAT

Data Used:

QuikSCAT/SeaWinds/Wind

1998/02/07-1999/06/25

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This item is part of this series:
Lunar Prospector

Keywords:
SVS >> Lunar Prospector
DLESE >> Physical geography
DLESE >> Space science
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons