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Apollo landing sites imaged for the first time by LRO...even make out the bootprints

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    #32
    Hauk
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Hauk


    There will be higher resolution shots available. The cameras on board the LRO are only really coming online, and the next shots of the landing site will be twice the magnification.

    From nasa.gov:
    The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.

    So yeah, there shall be more! :)


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    #33
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Is there any more on the higher resolution shots coming through? Even a date when they're being taken?
    LRO will enter its mapping orbit in August, so sometime shortly after that.


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