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LRO orbit insertion trail morphing from Earth centered to moon centered coordinates 3621 LRO Transition from Earth-Centered to Moon-Centered Coordinates
LRO orbits using 2 discrete coordinate systems 3618 LRO in Earth Centered and Moon Centered Coordinates
This short narrated feature describes how LRO's instruments are used collectively to scout for safe landing sites. The crater depicted in this stereoscopic visualization is ficticious and only intended for illustrative purposes. This set provides stereoscopic content (Left and Right Eye separate) of the visualization.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href='http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003587/script_9206_00.html'>here</a>. 3587 LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites - Stereoscopic Version
Apollo 15 Stereoscopic Panoramas featuring craters: Krieger, Rocco and Ruth. <br />Imagery provided for cross-eyed viewing purposes. 3531 Apollo 15 Rectified Stereo Panorama - Left and Right Eye Imagery
Anaglyphic 3D panorama from Apollo 15<BR>Features: craters Krieger, Rocco and Ruth 3530 Apollo 15 Rectified Anaglyph Stereo Panorama
Stereo imagery featuring craters: Krieger, Rocco, Ruth and the edge of Van Biesbroeck. Stereoscopic imagery is provided for the left and right eye. 3529 Apollo 15 Rectified Stereo Stills: KRIEGER
On August 1, 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invited the public to celebrate the mission's successful trip to the Moon with a free event at the GSFC Visitors Center. The 10475 LRO Moon Party
<b>GSFC Control Rooms</b><p>Though the actual Atlas rocket carrying NASA's LRO mission was launched from a site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Mission Operations Control Center (or MOCC) is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It is from the MOCC and Flight Conrol room (also at Goddard) that engineers will actually 10469 LRO Launch - More Views
Time: Tue Jun 30 15:28:04 UTC 2009<p>Orbit: 72<p>Center Longitude: -6°<p>Center Latitude: -34.4°<p>Resolution: 73 cm/pixel<p>Mode: Summed 10447 Flyover of the First Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Back to the Moon. It's Official.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href= 10445 LRO Enters Lunar Orbit (Highlights)
This video is a live program that aired during the crucial thruster burns which put the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter officially into lunar orbit. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23, 2009. 10444 LRO Enters Lunar Orbit (full live event)
<b>LRO/LCROSS Atlas V Launch!</b><p>NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite successfully launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2009. 10443 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Launch Videos
Wall*E comes to your classroom! 10442 Wall*E meets the Digital Learning Network
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.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href= 10438 LRO: Mapping Our Future
Craig Tooley is the Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Tooley give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance. 10433 LRO Interview: Craig Tooley, Project Manager
Cathy Peddie is the Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Peddie give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance. 10430 LRO Interview: Cathy Peddie, Deputy Project Manager
John Keller is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Keller give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance. 10429 LRO Interview: John Keller, Deputy Project Scientist
<b>Spin Test</b><p>The spin test determines the spacecraft's center of gravity and measures characteristics of its rotation. It also provides a fine 360-degree display of LRO. 10425 Testing of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Harlan Spence, Principal Investigator for LRO's CRaTER instrument, explains how the mission will prepare the way for long-term human presence in space.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href='Transcript_LRO_BUvideo_CRaTER.htm'>here</a>. 10415 LRO's CRaTER: Man, On The Moon
On February 11, 2008, after months of assembly and testing by engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft was cased up and loaded on a truck bound for Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for launch. 10410 LRO Ships Out from Goddard Space Flight Center
The LRO spacecraft sits horizontal and displays its entire instrument suite. One of the two medium-sized images contains labels pointing out the individual instruments and their location on the spacecraft. 10408 LRO - Assembly and Testing Stills (High Res)
<b>Apollo Image Archive</b> (from Arizona State University)<p><a href='http://apollo.sese.asu.edu'>http://apollo.sese.asu.edu</a><p>To allow full access to the original flight imagery for both researchers and the general public, Johnson Space Center and Arizona Stat University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo flight films. Through this online interface, users may browse through the archive and download any of the images. 10405 The Moon - Resources for Finding High-Res Stills
Rich Vondrak is the Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Vondrak give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance. 10378 LRO Interview: Rich Vondrak, Project Scientist
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first step to future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. But a lot has to happen before we get there and one woman on the LRO team played a key role in 'putting it together.' 10376 LRO's Team Spirit with Joanne Baker
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 (Narrated)
<br/><br/>The Autonomous Star Trackers provide attitude data and motion rate of the satellite. They are based on a radiation hardened design and proprietary algorithms that ensure accurate and robust 3-axes attitude determination. These same instruments most recently flew onboard NASA's Messenger and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions. <p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href='script_657_00.html'>here</a>. 10336 Star Trackers Light the Way
LRO will be launched via an Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It will take approximately four days for the satellite to travel to and then enter the moon's orbit. This video is from the launch of the MOR Mission. 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. 10335 The Atlas V Rocket Is Readied
This extended conceptual animation shows the LRO launch, deployment, and mission. LRO will travel with a secondary payload called Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). The second half of the animation focuses on the LCROSS mission. 10334 LRO/LCROSS Launch, Deploy, and Mission Animation
<b><font size='-1'>A 30 Foot Cable for Laser Ranging</font></b><br/><br/>This fiber optic cable attaches to the back of the Laser Ranging Telescope at the end of the High Gain Antenna boom. It actually has three segments that connect to each other. The first two segments are used to transfer the lights from the back of the telescope to the bottom of the boom. The third segment is used to transfer the light from the bottom of the boom to the LOLA instrument. This cable was carefully handmade at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.<br/> 10326 Assembly of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Wall*E learns about proportions!<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href='Transcript_for_WALL.htm'>here</a>. 10288 Wall*E Learns About Proportions
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
LRO7-Apollo-PRINT2 10269 LRO - Animation Stills (High Resolution)
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.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href= 10257 Return with LRO
LRO, coming soon to a moon near you.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href= 10254 LRO - The Next Step
<b>LRO/LCROSS Stacked and Ready for Encapsulation (still)</b><p><p><p>This photo shows the LRO and LCROSS spacecrafts mated together and sitting outside of the rocket fairing ready to be encapsulated for their trip to space. (credit: KSC) 10249 LRO L-14 Press Conference Supporting Videos
<p>We're Going, Are You?<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href='script_326_00.html'>here</a>. 10209 Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!
<b>Instrument Integration Montage</b><p><p><p>This sequence combines all of the video above along with music to show a montage of LRO's instrument integrations.<p><p> 10201 LRO Instrument Integrations

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