Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Snaps Apollo Landing Sites July 17, 2009
Posted by Jason W Ellis in Science, Technology.Tags: apollo, moon, nasa
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Visit this site to see pictures taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites. The lunar lander descent stages can be made out, but they are very tiny in the current images. The site says that future images of the landing sites will have a higher resolution, because the LRO had not yet attained its final orbital altitude.
With talk of Helium-3 and valuable mineral deposits on the Moon, a revived/reinvented/altogether new space race is just on the horizon.
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