The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's first step in returning humans to the Moon and extending human presence into the solar system. LRO will create the comprehensive atlas of the Moon's features and resources necessary to...

This video showcases the Apollo 12 landing site, visualized in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The locations of the flag shadow,...

Why do engineers need to test things over and over and over again? Find out in this video made for students by BEST (Beginning Engineering, Science, and Technology).<br/>
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A starkly beautiful region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater, which is located on the floor of the ancient Imbrian-aged Deslandres impact structure in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium. Numerous small, secondary craters...

From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of...

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit...

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2018, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon's orbit...

This 4K visualization shows the moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2017, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon's...

Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was used to create this visualization of the Rima Prinz channel and Vera volcanic depression on the Moon. This video was narrated by NASA Goddard planetary geologist Debra...

Short video showing the new images and identifying important features of the Apollo missions.



NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17...

The seven instruments aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter provide varied and unique datasets, but because of its polar orbit, the data coverage from LRO is best at the lunar poles. This visualization shows datasets from three LRO...

On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the moon. Now, the rest of us can see what it was like in a...

This visualization of Lee Lincoln scarp is created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs and elevation mapping. The scarp is a low ridge or step about 80 meters high and running north-south through the western...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission wishes everyone a happy International Observe the Moon Night.



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Thanks to data provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, we are able to visualize the Apollo 16 landing site in the Descartes highlands on the nearside of the Moon, where the astronauts landed in April 1972. The...

In celebration of International Observe the Moon Night (Oct. 16, 2021), NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission created this music video featuring the song "A Million Dreams," performed by the musical...

Liquid mirrors are lighter, simpler, faster to construct, and ten times cheaper than conventional glass mirrors

Yesterday, on the 31st May 2020, NASA and SpaceX successfully docked their Dragon capsule with the ISS. But what makes this event so significant?

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Why were you dimming? Scientists may have finally come up with the answer thanks to data from Hubble.

New research from NASA's Lunar Science Institute indicates that the solar wind may be charging certain regions at the lunar poles to hundreds of volts. In this short video Dr. Bill Farrell discusses this research and what it means for...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is perhaps the next most exciting observatory to the James Webb Space Telescope.

China says it has built an artificial moon that can make frogs and pretty much anything else float in the air.

From mysterious swirls of pale dust to oblong craters and oddly-shaped ridges, numerous sights on the lunar landscape are subject to a wide range of inquiry. In this video, Dr. Noah Petro, the Project Scientist of...

What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question, can a planet be bigger than its parent star?