LADEE sends its first images of the Moon back to Earth
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Earlier this month, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory successfully downlinked images of the moon and stars taken by onboard camera systems, known as star trackers. This is the first time the LADEE team commanded the spacecraft to send these pictures back to Earth.