Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - August 3-5, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Remnants of the Imbrium impact (Released 3 August 2010)
  Mare basalts embayed ejecta structures formed by the massive Imbrium impact.
• Concentric crater (Released 4 August 2010)
  The inner rim of Gruithuisen K.
• A path not taken (Released 5 August 2010)
  Mare surface in Sinus Aestuum near a lunar exploration site proposed in the late 1950s.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC and LOLA images - April 20-30, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Dante Crater Constellation Region of Interest (Released 20 April 2010)
  Highlands terrain inside the Dante Crater Constellation Site.
• Craters on the Schrodinger pyroclastic cone (Released 22 April 2010)
  LROC NAC closeup clustered craters on the Schrodinger pyroclastic cone, one of the NASA Constellation regions of interest.
• Constellation Region of Interest at Mare Tranquillitatis (Released 27 April 2010)
  Close up of a northwest trending wrinkle ridge in the high-Ti basaltic lava plains of Mare Tranquillitatis, near a Constellation region of interest.
• Floor of Tsiolkovskiy - Constellation Region of Interest (Released 30 April 2010)
  LROC NAC view of boulders on an outlying rampart of the complex central peak of Tsiolkovskiy crater within the Constellation region of interest.

Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) Image of the Week:

• Copernicus (Released 30 April 2010)
  800 million years ago an impactor struck the eastern extent of Oceanus Procellarum, the "Ocean of Storms."

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - April 13-16, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging Retroreflector - A Fundamental Point on the Moon! (Released 13 April 2010)
  The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector (LRRR) array is one of four such working arrays on the surface of the Moon.
• Exposed Fractured Bedrock in the Central Peak of the Anaxagoras Crater (Released 14 April 2010)
  NAC image of the Anaxagoras crater floor, including a portion of the crater's anorthositic central uplift.
• Rimae Prinz Region - Constellation Region of Interest (Released 15 April 2010)
  A sinuous rille created by a lava flow snakes around the base of a massif in the Prinz-Harbinger region on the Moon.
• Retracing the Steps of Apollo 15: Constellation Region of Interest (Released 16 April 2010)
  The third and final EVA of Apollo 15 brought the astronauts to the edge of Hadley Rille (lower left).

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - April 2-8, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Alphonsus crater mantled floor fracture (Released 2 April 2010)
  LROC NAC closeup of a fracture in the floor of Alphonsus crater.
• Each crater tells a story (Released 7 April 2010)
  The unusual shapes of craters at the Flamsteed Constellation region of interest provide information about the thickness of the lunar regolith in this region.
• Graben and Pyroclastics in SW Mare Humorum (Released 8 April 2010)
  A small graben (28 m in width) in a pyroclastic mantling deposit in the SW portion of Mare Humorum.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - March 26-April 1, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Two-toned Impact Crater in Balmer Basin: A Reflection of the Target?(Released 26 March 2010)
  Materials excavated during formation of this ~450 m diameter impact crater have an unusual two-toned character, likely a reflection of heterogeneity in the target materials.
• Chain of secondary craters in Mare Orientale (Released 29 March 2010)
  A small secondary crater chain near the southwestern margin of Mare Orientale, within the Inner Rook Mountains.
• Apollo Basin: Mare in a Sea of Highlands (Released 30 March 2010)
  High resolution LROC image of floor of the Apollo Basin, a large (538 km diameter) double-ringed impact crater in the southern hemisphere of the far side.
• Hortensius Domes - Constellation Region of Interest (Released 1 April 2010)
  Summit crater of Hortensius Dome Phi.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - March 15-19, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Soviet Union Lunar Sample Return Missions (Released 15 March 2010)
  On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed in the rugged highlands between Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Crisium.
• Soviet Union Lunar Rovers (Released 17 March 2010)
  Soviet robotic lander Luna 17 still sitting on Mare Imbrium where it delivered the Lunokhod 1 Rover in November 1970.
• Luna 21 Lander (Released 19 March 2010)
  Luna 21 lander delivered the Lunokhod 2 rover to the floor of Le Monnier crater in January 1973.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - March 15-19, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Soviet Union Lunar Sample Return Missions (Released 15 March 2010)
  On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed in the rugged highlands between Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Crisium.
• Soviet Union Lunar Rovers (Released 17 March 2010)
  Soviet robotic lander Luna 17 still sitting on Mare Imbrium where it delivered the Lunokhod 1 Rover in November 1970.
• Luna 21 Lander (Released 19 March 2010)
  Luna 21 lander delivered the Lunokhod 2 rover to the floor of Le Monnier crater in January 1973.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LROC images - February 22-March 11, 2010

The following featured images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) are now available:

• Near the Summit of Malapert Mountain (Released 22 February 2010)
  The lunar highlands exhibit rhythmic patterns thought to result from slow, downslope creep of the loose regolith (soil).
• Marius Hills Pit - Lava Tube Skylight? (Released 1 March 2010)
  The Marius Hills pit is a possible skylight in a lava tube in an ancient volcanic region of the Moon called the Marius Hills.
• Crisium's Constellation Region of Interest (Released 11 March 2010)
  Boulders on a wrinkle ridge in Mare Crisium may help us understand the geology of this Constellation region of interest.