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LRO: Mapping Our Future


The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar exploration efforts. LRO focuses on the selection of safe landing sites, identification of lunar resources and the study of how lunar radiation will affect humans.For complete transcript, click here.    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar exploration efforts. LRO focuses on the selection of safe landing sites, identification of lunar resources and the study of how lunar radiation will affect humans.

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Duration: 5.8 minutes
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Animation Number:10438
Completed:2009-05-18
Editor:Rich Melnick (HTSI)
Interviewees:Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC)
 Craig Tooley (NASA/GSFC)
 Cathy Peddie (NASA/GSFC)
 John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
 Dana Hurley (Southwest Research Institute (SwRI))
 Ashwin Vasavada (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Producer:Rich Melnick (HTSI)
Support:Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Videographers:Erica Drezek (HTSI)
 Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
 Chris Smith (HTSI)
 Michelle Williams (UMBC)
Series:Narrated Movies
 LRO - Edited Features
Goddard TV Tape:G2009-032 -- LRO Overview
Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Landing Site
SVS >> Lunar
SVS >> Moon
SVS >> Radiation
SVS >> Edited Feature
SVS >> LRO
SVS >> Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter
More Information on this topic available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/overview/
 
 
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Some of the lunar visualization used in this video uses elevation data from JAXA/SELENE.


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