07/02/2009
First Light Images of the Moon Surface
LRO, or Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, provides us with the first light images of the moon. The image above, "taken in the Mare Nubium region of the Moon, shows a heavily cratered area." Continue reading for one more picture.
The scale here is amazing: the whole image is 1400 meters across, or just under a mile. That's like looking out your airplane window...if you were over the frakking Moon.[via Badastronomy]
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