Featured Images

Necho Crater

Cracks form in the impact melt sheet on the floor of Necho Crater. Image width is 1.04 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 21 Aug 2009

Trail of Discovery at Fra Mauro

Uncalibrated LROC NAC image of the Apollo 14 landing site and nearby Cone crater. The trail followed by the astronauts can clearly be discerned. Image width is 1.6 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 19 Aug 2009

Rille within a rille!

Sinuous rille winding its way across a much larger rille in the heart of the Aristarchus Plateau, image width 1.76 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 18 Aug 2009

Hummocks and blocks and craters

Hummocks and blocks on the ejecta blanket of Tsiolkovskiy crater. Image width is 830 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 04 Aug 2009

Bright Crater Rays and Boulders

Small (250 m diameter) fresh impact crater surrounded by an asymmetrical bright ejecta blanket [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 03 Aug 2009

The Moon in 3D

Spectacular view of Lee Lincoln scarp obtained in stereo by imaging off-nadir (looking off to the side) from two adjacent orbits. Scene is approximately 2.7 km across [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 21 Jul 2009

LROC’s First Look at the Apollo Landing Sites

Four times enlargement of an uncalibrated LROC NAC image showing the Apollo 14 lunar module (LM Antares) and the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP). Note the astronaut tracks between the two artifacts [NASA/GSFC/Arizona...

Published on 16 Jul 2009

Swooping over the Lunar Highlands

Close-up view of the lunar highlands, northeast of Clavius crater [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Published on 03 Jul 2009

LRO Launch: View from Banana Creek

LRO Launch as seen from Banana Creek (Peter Thomas, Cornell Univ)

Published on 22 Jun 2009

Welcome to the new LROC Web Page!!!

Annotated picture showing one of the NACs, the WAC, and the SCS

Published on 06 Mar 2009