"but unfortunately no proof imaginable would scare of the conspiracy nutcases."
#39 | Posted by CrisisStills
LRO Enters Orbit Around the Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully entered orbit around the moon following a nearly five-day journey. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23.
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The LRO satellite will explore the moon's deepest craters, examining permanently sunlit and shadowed regions, and provide understanding of the effects of lunar radiation on humans. LRO will return more data about the moon than any previous mission. The spacecraft's instruments will help scientists compile high resolution, three-dimensional maps of the lunar surface and also survey it at many spectral wavelengths.
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)
The LROC investigation is led by Principal Investigator Mark Robinson of Arizona State University. Malin Space Science Systems designed and built the instruments. LROC will be operated from facilities at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The LROC Science Team includes participants from Brown University, Washington University, and the University of Arizona.
LROC consists of two narrow angle cameras and a wide angle camera. The two narrow angle cameras will provide extreme closeup images of the lunar surface with a spatial resolution of 0.5 meters (1.6 ft) per pixel over a swath that is 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) wide. The narrow angle cameras will help identify landing sites for new spacecraft to be sent to the Moon, and will have sufficient resolution to see the Apollo, Surveyor, and Luna hardware left there in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Seems we may have the pics soon.
