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• NASA's LRO Returns its First Images of the Moon

  added on 03 Jul 2009

  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter returned its first images of the lunar surface today. How beautiful, that magnificent desolation...Visit the LRO homepage to view these images in high resolution.

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• NASA's LRO Returns its First Images of the Moon

  posted to The Launch Pad on 23 Sep 2009

  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter returned its first images of the lunar surface today. How beautiful, that magnificent desolation...Visit the LRO homepage to view these images in high resolution.

• New moon vistas revealed

  posted to Cosmic Log on 23 Sep 2009

  NASA / GSFC / ASU This image shows a cratered region near the moon's Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds) region, as photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Click on the image for a larger version from NASA's Web site. Today's first images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...

• LRO First Light images of the Moon!

  posted to Bad Astronomy on 23 Sep 2009

  [Update: Ken Bowley on Facebook clued me in that the LRO camera has a page where you can see the raw images, and zoom in — WAY in — on the image strips. They have 73 cm resolution, folks. Yikes.] The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned its first images from the Moon! Woohoo! Check. It. Out...

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