ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) Vikram lander, with a NASA retroreflector on it, touched down on the Moon on August 23, 2023. The camera aboard…
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The restored image of Earthrise. A high-quality black and white image was colored using hues from the original color photos. Credit: NASA, Apollo 8 Crew,…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always…
Artist’s animation of a rocket booster crashing into the moon. Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred…
Artist’s animation of a rocket booster crashing into the moon. The accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space. On March…
On October 13, 2021, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter slewed to allow LRO Camera (LROC) to acquire this magnificent view revealing Saturn and its rings. Credit:…
[embedded content] At the Moon’s North and South Poles, the Sun is never more than 1.5° above or below the horizon. The resulting pattern of…
An example of LRO’s ability to look to the side, or slew, is this image of the central peak in Tycho crater. The central peak…
Overhead view of OSIRIS-REx at sample site Nightingale, with a parking lot for comparison. Credit: NASA/Goddard/CI Lab/University of Arizona When landing Apollo 11 in 1969,…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser…
View of Moon Limb, with Earth on the Horizon. Credit: NASA Apollo 11 Mission Image Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon;…
This image based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the face of the Moon we see from Earth. The more we learn…
[embedded content] This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the…
Shackleton Crater, the floor of which is permanently shadowed from the sun, appears to be home to deposits of water ice. A new study sheds…
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these views of the Lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across…
View of the Moon. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Using an instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have observed water molecules moving…