considerable mobility. As in previous Apollo missions, the astronauts set up the lunar monitoring equipment known as the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the details of which varied from mission to mission. To the west of the landing site, the cross-shaped path that the astronau...
Guided by official NASA photographs from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the original Apollo missions, the reader can view the Moon with a new appreciation of the accomplishment of landing astronauts on its surface. 聽Countless people have gazed at the Moon in the night sky knowing the ...
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been in orbit around the moon since June 2009. The $504 million car-sized spacecraft first capturedclose-up images of the Apollo landing sitesin July 2009, which revealed new details about the sites and even spotted hardware that was left behind on the lu...
The site for the first manned lunar landing mission had been made from a combination of both geological and orbital mechanics factors. All the Apollo landing sites would be along the lunar equator. Possible locations for these landing sites had been photographed by orbiting probes and the mapping...
LRO normally circles the moon at an altitude of about 31 miles (50 km) above the lunar surface. As the spacecraft zeroed in on the three Apollo landing sites, the probe was also able to collect valuable observations using its other instruments....
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New photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the Apollo moon landing sites in high-resolution, revealing details that could solve historical mysteries about the first manned moon landings
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Lunar Landing SitesPetrographyAbundanceBrecciaElectron MicroscopyHighlandsLunar EvolutionMetal OxidesApollo 16 stations 4 and 5 rake samples were examined petrographically and by electron microprobe and INAA. Results were combined with published information (major and trace element compositions, petrologic ...
To address questions about the multiple lunar nearside–farside dichotomies and to provide new insights into both the early impact history of the Solar System and the geological evolution of the Moon, the Chang’e-6 (CE-6) landing zone has been selected