NASA Unveils New Detailed Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 15:30 in Astronomy & Space

New photos of several Apollo moon landing sites were released today (Sept. 6), showing extraordinary new details about three areas on the lunar surface that were visited by humans. The images include the sharpest views yet of tracks left by the astronauts and their lunar rovers."The images look very spectacular, as you can see for yourself," Mark Robinson, an Arizona State University, Tempe scientist, who is the principal investigator of LRO's camera, said in a news briefing today. [More]

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