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NASA orbiter snaps photo of Japanese moon lander wreckage

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the crash site for Tokyo-based ispace's Resilience lander on the moon. A private Japanese space company said its moon-landing crash earlier this month ...
Electronic Design

Why Power Density Was Important for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Details about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) power-system design. How power density was increased in radiation-hardened computer hardware. The NASA LRO Power System Electronics (PSE) ...
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10 facts about the moon - from space experts

Space experts have discovered something incredible about lunar water distribution that challenges everything we thought we knew. According to a new analysis of data from NASA's LRO (Lunar ...
Phoenix New Times

ASU’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Created a Mosaic of the Moon’s Surface

A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, in this case, $504 million. At least, that’s what it cost to build the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA’s robotic spacecraft that is currently orbiting ...
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Scientists just discovered a new crater on the moon — they call it a 'freckle'

The headline says it all: The list of our moon's craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — which operates visual equipment on NASA's Lunar ...
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NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander.Related video above: SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodesNASA released the pictures ...
Astronomy

Moonquakes are the primary trigger for lunar landslides, study finds

New research has identified 41 small-scale landslides on the lunar surface that formed since 2009, indicating the Moon is more geologically active than previously understood. Analysis of ...