New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 17:23
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, is making the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface while the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon.