NASA Is Taking Pictures of the Lunar Landing Too

A few days ago we’ve told you about NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter capable of taking detailed pictures of the Moon’s surface. Now NASA has confirmed that, besides the usual craters, the Orbiter will be used to capture photos of the Lunar landings. NASA plans to stop all the criticism and negative publicity that’s suggesting the ...

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Lunar Orbiter Beams Back Pictures

On June 18th, NASA sent two tandem spacecraft into the orbit of the moon to take photos of the craters there. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter started sending back images just last week. The images are beautiful, crisp photos of the surface area located just east of Hell E crater, where the day-night line is located. To ...

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