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LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.

The raw animation sequences used to create this video feature as well as high resolution stills from the video can be viewed and downloaded here.


This short video feature describes how LRO's instruments are used collectively to scout for safe landing sites. The crater depicted in this animation is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes.<p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href='LRO_Safe_Landings_transcript.htm'>here</a>.    This short video feature describes how LRO's instruments are used collectively to scout for safe landing sites. The crater depicted in this animation is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes.

For complete transcript, click here.
Duration: 3.0 minutes
Available formats:
  960x540 (29.97 fps) MPEG-4   105 MB
  1280x720 (30 fps) QUICKTIME 94 MB
  640x360 (29.97 fps) MPEG-1   41 MB
  640x360 (29.97 fps) MPEG-4   34 MB
  320x180 (29.97 fps) MPEG-4   14 MB
  320x236 (29.97 fps) MPEG-4   10 MB
  640x480 (30 fps) QUICKTIME 33 MB
  320x240     PNG           136 KB
  160x80       PNG           41 KB
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Animation Number:10349
Animator:Alex Kekesi (SVS) (Lead)
Completed:2008-09-03
Producer:Andy Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Video Editor:Andy Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Scientist:John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
Writers:William Steigerwald (NASA/GSFC)
 Andrew Freeberg
Narrator:Erica Drezek (HTSI)
Instrument:LRO
Series:LRO
Goddard TV Tape:G2008-018HD -- LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites
Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Landing Site
SVS >> Lunar
SVS >> Moon
SVS >> Edited Feature
SVS >> LRO
SVS >> Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter
SVS >> LOLA
SVS >> LROC
 
 
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