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NASA’s LRO Snaps a Rare Photo of a Bizarre Spacecraft Speeding at 11,500 KM/H over the Moon’s Orbit — We Finally Know What It Is

In a rare cosmic alignment, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO) successfully captured images of South Korea’s Danuri ...
SpaceRef

LRO Sends Back Images of Apollo Lunar Module Hardware On The Moon

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions’ lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon’s ...
Astronomy

Exclusive: LRO scientist recaps launch week

OK, you already know that by now, but please excuse my lingering excitement days after the successful launch of NASA’s return to the Moon. I can’t help myself. It was simply amazing to witness the ...
SpaceNews

LRO’s LAMP Shedding Light on Shadowed Regions of the Moon

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous ...
Astronomy

The LRO spacecraft captures images of LADEE’s impact crater

NASA’S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface — one made from the impact of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.
SpaceNews

LRO Ends Recon Mission, Starts Science Phase

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Wired

Zooming in on Apollo: New Images of the Moon From LRO

The Apollo missions to the Moon. Few things stand out in modern human history that are as momentous. Now, thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO for short, we have new views of three of ...
New Atlas

LRO - a giant leap for data transfer from the moon

How is it that my cell phone still loses connection in the city and my laptop barely gets the Internet in the mountains, yet NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) can keep in touch with Earth from ...
Forbes

The NASA Orbiter That Turned Lunar Science On Its Head

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Launched ten years ago this week, NASA’s Lunar ...
Slate

LRO spots Apollo landing sites in high res

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon for the past few years, snapping away, taking hi-res pictures of the lunar surface from a height of a mere 50 kilometers (30 miles). A ...
Space.com

NASA Adds Moon Crashing Probes to LRO Mission

NASA's nextmission to Moon will not merely orbit the gray satellite, but crash twovehicles into its South Pole to hunt for water ice, the space agency saidMonday. In additionto mapping the Moon to ...