Forty years after the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon, NASA released photographs from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft Friday showing five of the six Apollo landing sites. Shadows cast by ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has gathered data that allows us to recreate some of the views that the astronauts on Apollo 13 would have seen as they orbited the moon decades ago in 1970. The ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon for the past few years, snapping away, taking hi-res pictures of the lunar surface from a height of a mere 50 kilometers (30 miles). A ...

Image:Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger descent stage comes into focus from the new lower 50 km mapping orbit, image width 102 meters. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Larger image ...

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I was standing in the back of a packed auditorium at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany last year, a few steps away from Gene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17 and the last man on the moon. We were ...

I’ve been reading a lot about Apollo lately – the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 is almost upon us – and of course the Moon is in my thoughts anyway with the advent of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths ...

This is a picture of the Apollo 11 landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The LRO’s primary mission is to make a 3-D map of the lunar surface. In the process, the probe has ...

Critical science support for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched today from Cape Canaveral, Florida, will help pave the way for further human and robotic exploration of the Moon. U.S.

It is one of the most famous photos ever taken — the Earth rising over the moon's horizon as seen firsthand by the 1968 Apollo 8 crew. And yet, more than four decades later, details about the how ...

LRO maneuvered into its 50-km mapping orbit on September 15. The next pass over the Apollo 17 landing site resulted in images with more than two times better resolution than previously acquired. At ...