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单词 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Astronomy
  • A NASA Moon probe, launched in 2009 June, to improve knowledge in preparation for future human landings. It studies the Moon from low polar orbit (30–50 km) with the following instruments: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which takes wide-angle and narrow-angle photographs of possible landing sites with resolutions down to 1 m and looks for areas of permanent sunlight or shade at the lunar poles; the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), to measure landing site slopes and search for possible locations for surface ice at the poles; the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), to search for ice near the surface and study radiation around the Moon; Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), an infrared radiometer to measure lunar surface temperatures and identify possible ice deposits; Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), an imaging ultraviolet spectrometer to observe the surface at ultraviolet wavelengths, including permanently shadowed regions; Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER), to investigate radiation around the Moon and its possible biological effects; and Mini-RF, a miniature radar. In addition, a subsatellite called Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was launched on the same rocket as LRO. On 2009 October 9 the upper stage of the launch rocket was crashed into the Moon in the permanently shadowed floor of the crater Cabeus. LCROSS observed the impact for signs of water vapour before itself crashing into the Moon.

    Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Official mission website

    http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/135-High-Noon-at-Tranquility-Base.html


Space Exploration
  • A NASA Moon-orbiter probe launched in June 2009. While mapping the lunar surface from a polar orbit at an altitude of 30–50 km LRO looked for potential sites for future manned landings. It studied the permanently shadowed regions near the Moon's poles in search of possible deposits of ice on or just under the surface. Its instruments include a mapping camera with resolution of one metre or better, a laser altimeter to measure slopes, a radiometer to map temperatures, and a neutron detector to search for evidence of water ice. LRO is the first mission in NASA's Robotic Lunar Exploration Program. In May 2017 the orbiter identified bright areas in craters near the Moon’s south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface. In February 2018 NASA announced that a new analysis of data from LRO and nother lunar mission has found evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain.

    https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/index.html#.U6HH8ChLIjM The latest LRO news.


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