Recent News
Exciting New Results from LROC Data
LROC images are providing important new insights into the geology of the Moon and helping to define key targets for future lunar exploration.
Published on 23 Aug 2010
LROC Featured Image -- Summer Vacation
The LROC Featured Image is on vacation this week - please check back the week of August 23rd.
Published on 17 Aug 2010
First Images
It was one year ago, 30 June 2009, when LROC was powered up and sent back its first images from the Moon.
Published on 30 Jun 2010
LROC PDS Release 2
The LROC team released images acquired from January 1, 2010 through March 15, 2010. This release contains 51,070 LROC EDR products, which has a total volume of 6 TBytes and...
Published on 21 Jun 2010
One Year!
LRO was launched one year ago today, 18 June 2009, 5:32pm EDT.
Published on 18 Jun 2010
LROC Archive Back On Line
The building maintenance is complete, and the LROC archive is now back online.
Published on 06 May 2010
Planned Outage for LROC Image Archive
Access to the LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0 and LRO-L-LROC-3-CDR-V1.0 PDS archives will not be available for approximately 24 to 48 hours starting at 4:00 PM MST on 5 May 2010.
Published on 05 May 2010
LROC Coordinates of Robotic Spacecraft
Repeatedly imaging anthropogenic targets on the Moon is an LROC team priority. As each image comes down we carefully search for the hardware (or impact crater). If the target...
Published on 05 Apr 2010
LROC PDS Archive Goes live
Today over 100,000 images from LROC’s first six months of observations were made available on the LROC PDS archive webpage.The LROC EDR (EDR) release includes 105,000 NAC and...
Published on 15 Mar 2010
LROC PDS Archive Goes live
The complete set of science data from LROC’s first six months of observations, consisting of more than 100,000 lunar images was released on Monday March 15.
Published on 15 Mar 2010
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference This Week
The biggest planetary science meeting of the year takes place this week (March 1-5) in Woodlands TX. There are more than 25 LROC specific presentations and many other lunar...
Published on 01 Mar 2010
LROC Mass Storage Offline
Much of the previously posted LROC data is currently offline due to a problem with the primary LROC mass storage system. Because the volume is very large, inspecting and...
Published on 22 Feb 2010
Second LROC NAC EDR Pre-Release
The first Planetary Data System (PDS) LRO data release will occur in mid-March 2010. To help interested users familiarize themselves with LROC data before the official release...
Published on 30 Jan 2010
Web: News System Visually Enhanced
In our continuing efforts to improve our website, we have visually enhanced our News System! Check out the new look for our new Featured Images and Announcements!
Published on 18 Jan 2010
LROC NAC Image Prerelease
The first Planetary Data System (PDS) LRO data release will occur in mid-March 2010. To help interested users familiarize themselves with LROC data before the official release...
Published on 18 Dec 2009
New York Times Editorial on LROC Apollo Images
The New York Times has published an editorial about the LROC images of the Apollo landing sites.
Published on 17 Nov 2009
Apollo 11 Landing Site
We have just released a new video using NAC data to zoom down to Tranquility Base, the Apollo 11 landing site.
Published on 13 Nov 2009
Apollo 17 Landing Site
We have just released an exciting video showcasing the Apollo 17 landing site, which features the lunar module descent stage, the Apollo 17 lunar surface experiments package,...
Published on 28 Oct 2009
Operations Journal: LROC's Science Operations Center (SOC)
Published on 12 Oct 2009
LCROSS Impacts the Moon!
The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impacted the Moon as planned on 7:31 a.m. (EDT) Oct. 9
Published on 10 Oct 2009