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    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...
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    The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...
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    The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help...
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    United States spacecraft to orbit the Moon was Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 14, 1966. The first orbit was an elliptical orbit, with an apolune of 1,008 nautical...
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    Orbiters, Clementine, Lunar Prospector, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Kaguya, and Chandrayaan-1, that discovered the presence of lunar water. NASA's LCROSS...
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  • potential resource identification. Two LPRP missions, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS),...
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    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as...
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    orbiter and rover Lunar Flashlight solar sail orbiter Lunar IceCube lunar orbiter LunaH-Map lunar obiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter "NASA - SOFIA discovers...
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    "Lunar Orbiter Longjiang-2 Smashes into Moon". www.planetary.org. Retrieved 2019-08-07. "Longjiang-2 Impact Site Found! | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
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    black-and-white 1966 raster image taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic probe, the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. Earthrise was taken by astronaut...
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    15 Lunar Module blast crater while orbiting above the lunar surface. Beginning in 2009, NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, while orbiting 50...
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    in-orbit and surface experiments Ground Support and Application Facility – data center and ground support operations Objectives: Lunar reconnaissance with...
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    Missions" (PDF). "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the Surveyor 3 landing site". Retrieved 2009-09-04. "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter returns to the...
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    lunar surface. It also received data relay support from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) for the landing of the Chang’e 3 probe. Chang’e-4: The...
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    crater Tycho, taken at sunrise by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011. Lunar Orbiter 4 image from 1967 Lunar Orbiter 5 image of the northeastern crater...
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    landers, five Lunar Orbiter surveillance probes,: 166  and nine Apollo missions, which landed the first humans on the Moon. For the Apollo lunar missions,...
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  • 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface...
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    Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed...
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    launched the Clementine mission in 1994, and Lunar Prospector in 1998. NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, on June 18, 2009, which has collected...
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    IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus (lunar lander))
    soft lunar landing by a private company. It is the first liquid methane and liquid oxygen (methalox)-powered spacecraft to fire beyond low-earth orbit, and...
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    to win the Google Lunar X Prize. Colonization of the Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Selenography Lunar south pole "TWO GOOGLE LUNAR XPRIZE TEAMS ANNOUNCE...
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    taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission beginning in July 2009 show the six Apollo Lunar Module descent stages, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments...
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    The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially Danuri, is South Korea's first lunar orbiter. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control...
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    Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
    map of the lunar surface, and confirming the presence of water molecules in lunar soil. The U.S. launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the...
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    Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad...
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    Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968) Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967) Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973)...
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  • relatively stable temperature range. Detailed lunar topography collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) suggests that no points on the Moon receive...
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    Chandrayaan-1 (category Indian lunar exploration programme)
    was inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008. On 14 November 2008, the Moon Impact Probe separated from the Chandrayaan orbiter at 14:36 UTC and struck...
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    Leonard (18 March 2010). "NASA Lunar Orbiter Spots Old Soviet Moon Landers". "Luna-20 surface photos". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Retrieved 2022-11-30...
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    control the orbiter, rather any tests or operations on the orbiter are done through the national space agency i.e SUPARCO." While Orbiting specific missions...
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