Thursday, February 3, 2011

L.R.O.C.

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M109134835LE

L.R.O.C. stands for "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera". This is the camera that allows Earthlings to take close-up pictures of their moon. The Hubble Space Telescope is incapable of such detailed, zoomed images. The link above will lead you to a picture on the interweb taken by L.R.O.C. of the Apollo 16 landing site. It looks like they left a large quantity of garbage behind. Typical human behaviour. Oh well, you can't take it with you, and at least it's not in Earth's orbit, causing damage to spacecraft.

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