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Table of Contents for LRO
LRO
LRO/LROC
LRO/Diviner
LRO/LOLA

LRO
Movie   ID   Title
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>.   10349   LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or LRO will give scientists more information about the structure of the Moon’s interior; the types of rock found there, events that shaped it, and the conditions that exist at the surface. LRO will spend one year in a polar orbit collecting this information. LRO's instrument suite will provide the highest resolution and the most comprehensive data set and the most detailed maps ever returned from the moon. It will carry an additional payload called LCROSS. The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon’s polar craters with two heavy impactors to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater’s surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated material. <br/>   10334   Launch, Deploy, and Misson Animation
This animation follows LRO as it moves along its orbit high above the lunar surface.   10281   LRO Tracking (version 2)
Here we follow LRO as it moves along it's orbit high above the lunar surface.   10280   LRO Tracking (version 1)
A 720 degree spin of LRO with labels on the 6 major instruments and Mini-RF technology demonstration.   10279   LRO Spin (instruments labeled)
This is the opening title sequence for LRO videos.   10278   LRO Title Sequence
This animated sequence takes a view from inside a large crater as LRO passes overhead.   10277   LRO Moonview
We get a view from inside the Lambert crater (using a topological DEM model) as LRO passes overhead.   10276   LRO Lambert Crater
This animation tracks with LRO as it passes above a large lunar crater.   10275   LRO Follow Over Crater (version 2)
This animation tracks with LRO as it passes above a large lunar crater.   10274   LRO Follow Over Crater (version 1)
The LRO spacecraft traverses from darkness into daylight.   10273   LRO Distant
This animation is a close-up view highlighting spacecraft instrumentation - pulling away to reveal LRO's track over the moon.   10272   LRO Over Moon
LRO from the Earth to the Moon   10265   LRO from Earth
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission.   10257   Return with LRO
<p>For complete transcript, click <a href='script_326_00.html'>here</a>.   10209   Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!
The LRO spacecraft is coming together with the integration and testing of some of the science instruments.   10201   LRO Instrument Integrations

LRO-LROC
Movie   ID   Title
The crater depicted in this animation is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes. The animation begins with the reveal of a digital elevation map showing sample lunar topography illustrating the kind of data that LRO's LOLA instrument will collect. From this topographic data level surface areas can be derived as the first step to determining safe landing sites. Next, an example temperature map of the lunar surface is revealed to show the sort of data Diviner will collect. Changes in surface temperature will help determine small rock hazards, since they retain and release heat at a different rate than the surrounding regolith. Large rock hazards can be found with LROC's surface imagery. Finally, removing rock hazard areas from level surface areas reveals potential safe landing sites for future lunar missions.   3533   How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon

LRO-Diviner
Movie   ID   Title
The crater depicted in this animation is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes. The animation begins with the reveal of a digital elevation map showing sample lunar topography illustrating the kind of data that LRO's LOLA instrument will collect. From this topographic data level surface areas can be derived as the first step to determining safe landing sites. Next, an example temperature map of the lunar surface is revealed to show the sort of data Diviner will collect. Changes in surface temperature will help determine small rock hazards, since they retain and release heat at a different rate than the surrounding regolith. Large rock hazards can be found with LROC's surface imagery. Finally, removing rock hazard areas from level surface areas reveals potential safe landing sites for future lunar missions.   3533   How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon

LRO-LOLA
Movie   ID   Title
The crater depicted in this animation is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes. The animation begins with the reveal of a digital elevation map showing sample lunar topography illustrating the kind of data that LRO's LOLA instrument will collect. From this topographic data level surface areas can be derived as the first step to determining safe landing sites. Next, an example temperature map of the lunar surface is revealed to show the sort of data Diviner will collect. Changes in surface temperature will help determine small rock hazards, since they retain and release heat at a different rate than the surrounding regolith. Large rock hazards can be found with LROC's surface imagery. Finally, removing rock hazard areas from level surface areas reveals potential safe landing sites for future lunar missions.   3533   How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon


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