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Finding New Craters on the Moon with LRO
« on: 03/17/2015 07:59 pm »
NASA | New Craters on the Moon

Published on Mar 17, 2015
By: NASA Goddard

Planetary scientists believe that small impacts regularly bombard the Moon, but until recently, they’ve had no way to distinguish new craters from the already pockmarked lunar surface. In 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) arrived at the Moon and began taking high-resolution photographs. By comparing pictures taken early in the mission with more recent images, the LRO camera team at Arizona State University has discovered more than two-dozen new impact craters – including an 18-meter-wide crater caused by a bright flash on March 17, 2013. LRO is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Written feature on nasa.gov:
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Learn more about LROC and the detection of the March 17, 2013 lunar impact crater:
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Learn more about NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:
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