LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites

LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) captures images of meter-scale and smaller features that pose a potential threat to landing and obstacles to the trafficability of future human and robotic explorers. This article discusses imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites, which show the lunar module's descent stages sitting on the moon's surface.

Topics

  • LRO
  • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • NASA history
  • solar system
  • lunar surface
  • space exploration
  • Apollo
  • Moon