The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO, full name: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) is the first mission of the "New Space Exploration Program" of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This program was proposed in 2004, aiming to return to the moon, land on Mars and march further into space.
The cameras on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter detected thousands of relatively small and new thrust faults widely distributed in the lunar crust.[3]
The mission of the lunar orbiter includes finding a safe landing site on the lunar surface, finding potential resources, studying the radiation environment on the lunar surface and demonstrating some new technologies.The probe, headed by NASA's Integrated Exploration Mission Executive Committee, will operate in a 50 km high polar lunar orbit for one year.LRO will send back a large amount of data including full day monthly temperature map, lunar surface geodetic coordinates, high-resolution color pictures and lunar surface ultraviolet albedo.However, the most important part of this task is that some of the poles of the moon do not see sunshine all the year round
LRO spacecraft map
Look for traces of water in the dark at the poles.The extremely exploratory mission of LRO made NASA's Executive Committee of Integrated Exploration Mission transition to a scientific stage a year later. Many instruments on LRO were inherited from previous planetary probes.
Explore the Moon
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The scientists of NASA space agency obtained the high-resolution topographic map of the moon surface using the camera installed on the lunar exploration orbiter, and thus established the 3D imaging map of the moon surface.Lunar Reconnaissance OrbiterCamera Narrow Angle Camera (LROC NAC) is the state of Arizona andarizona state university An automatic generation of processing system jointly developed by the team ofStereoscopic photographInstrument.This three-dimensional image can be recognized by red, blue and green 3D glasses.
After acquiring the three-dimensional image, LROC expands the topography of the moon surface through the positioning position of the moon surface and the orbit of the captured image, and through shooting from different angles.
The role of stereoscopic photos is to enable scientists to better understand the 3D structure of the moon surface.The three-dimensional photos taken by LROC NAC include 3D effects on the moon, craters, volcanic flows, lava tubes and structural features.LROC NAC stereo photos can clearly and detailedly show the characteristics of the moon surface.[1]
Korolev leafy steep slope
Korolev leafy steep slope
Leaf scarps (lunar cliffs) are mostly located on the plateau on the moon, which are relatively small cliffs formed relatively late.The formation of the leafy steep slope is mainly caused by the fracturing of the moon's crust.Why does the surface of the moon compress?Because the temperature of the core of the moon is low, some liquid will be frozen into solid, resulting in smaller occupied area.Leaf shaped scarps range from several hundred meters in size to several kilometers in size, and from 10 to 50 meters in height. They are not large in size, or they will be destroyed by the impact of some meteors.
Janssen K Table Crater
Figure 1 Janssen K Table Volcanic Crater
Janssen K is a crater with a diameter of about 12 kilometers. Figure 1 shows a small part of the Great Janssen Crater.Some traces of debris flow can be seen on the wall of the crater.
Alpine curved groove
Alpine curved groove
The Alpine meander groove is a very ancient mark, which is formed by the outflow of lava caused by a large-scale volcanic eruption.Apollo 15 landed in Hadley Ditch.
Oriental sculpture
Oriental sculpture
The ancient radial scarred eruptions extended hundreds of kilometers to a basin to the east of the moon. With the impact of some meteorites and the huge sand dunes formed in this area over the years, the shape of "Oriental Sculpture" was finally formed.
Lunar crater
On September 1, 2023, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on its official website that its "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter" (LRO) had photographed a new "meteorite crater" on the surface of the moon, which was presumably caused by the impact of the Russian "Lung-25" probe.[2]
Detection results
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The cameras on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter detected thousands of relatively small and new thrust faults widely distributed in the lunar crust.[3]
