Saturday, 5 September 2009

LRO Takes First Look At Apollo 12 Landing Site

Image 1: This image from LRO shows the spacecraft’s first look at the Apollo 12 landing site. The Intrepid lunar module descent stage, experiment package (ALSEP) and Surveyor 3 spacecraft are all visible. Astronaut footpaths are marked with unlabeled arrows. This image is 824 meters (about 900 yards) wide. The top of the image faces North. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State UniversityImage 2: This graphic shows the approximate locations of the Apollo moon landing sites. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1748423/lro_takes_first_look_at_apollo_12_landing_site/index.html?source=r_space

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