NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance ... observed on the Moon. For example, backyard astronomy enthusiasts will be familiar with the rays around Tycho and Copernicus craters on the near side of the ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest ... features on the surface of the Moon today. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon since ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

after the larger crater, Mersenius E,' explained Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) mission. LROC is a Nasa craft currently orbiting the moon to map ...

We’ll use this effect for the next section on lunar mountains, but before we do, there are a couple of craters that we’d like to bring to your attention. Actually, the Moon is covered with a ...

Earthshine is the effect you get when you sometimes see the faint dark part of the Moon glowing next to a fully illuminated lunar ... filled crater just south of the mid-point between Copernicus ...

This structure is located in the outer margin of the moon's largest and oldest remaining impact crater ... human lunar missions. They analyzed photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...