Article 2P776 Complete orbit of the moon from NASA Lunar Orbiter

Complete orbit of the moon from NASA Lunar Orbiter

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Rob Beschizza
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From @LRO_NASA:

"A huge payoff from the longevity of the LRO mission is the repeat coverage obtained by the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC). The WAC has a very wide field-of-view (FOV), 90 in monochrome mode and 60 in multispectral mode, hence its name. On the one hand, the wide FOV enables orbit-to-orbit stereo, which allowed LROC team members at the DLR to create the unprecedented 100 meter scale near-global (0 to 360 longitude and 80S to 80N latitude) topographic map of the Moon."

See also NASA Goddard's Tour of the Moon, especially if your love for it was formed in the last century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iSZMv64wuULYc_M8jzk0M

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