The Moon, Up Close and in Detail
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) image of a lunar eclipse shows more detail than ever before.
The image, along with nearly 200 terabytes of data, has been collected by NASA's LRO over its one-year mission to study and map the moon.
It collected enough data to fill 41,000 DVDs.
The primary objective of the 540 million U.S. Dollars spacecraft was to send back enough information about the moon's surface to help NASA choose the most ideal locations for future manned outposts on the lunar surface.
LRO has seven instruments aboard to measure different aspects of the moon.
One instrument, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, provided NASA with four billion measurements of the moon's topography and surface slopes with 100 times more accuracy than previous data.
LRO's onboard camera produced a new global map of the moon with an unprecedented amount of detail and resolution.
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