Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
The Darkest Parts of the Moon are Revealed with NASA’s New Camera
While the surface of the Moon has been mapped in incredible detail over the last several decades, one region has…
NASA May Have Found Hakuto-R’s Crash Site
New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) appear to show the crash site where the Japanese Hakuto-R Mission 1…
New Spacecraft Can See Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon
Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole is one of the locations on NASA’s shortlist for human exploration with the…
Remember That Rocket That was Going to Crash Into the Moon? Scientists Think They've Found the Crater
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) – NASA’s eye-in-the-sky in orbit around the Moon – has found the crash site of…
Here’s The Exact Point of the Moon’s South Pole
Since 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been taking high-resolution pictures of the lunar surface. This data, along with…
A Spacecraft Orbiting the Moon Just Captured an Image of Saturn
Cameras can be finicky - especially ones primarily used for astronomy. When used for a purpose other than their intended…
NASA Spacecraft Takes a Picture of Jupiter … From the Moon
You know the feeling …. seeing Jupiter through your own telescope. If it gives you the chills -- like it…
Lunar Spacecraft Gets an Upgrade to Capture New Perspectives of the Moon
Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age, but a recent software…
Lunar Orbiter Takes a Meteorite Strike Right in the Camera
On October 13th, 2014, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experienced something rare and unexpected. While monitoring the surface of the…
NASA Approves New Horizons Extended KBO Mission, Keeps Dawn at Ceres
In an ‘Independence Day’ gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing…