{"id":8119,"date":"2009-08-12T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2009-08-12T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:24:10","slug":"lro-finds-lunar-landing-sites-apollo-astronauts-thats-where-we-used-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/lro-finds-lunar-landing-sites-apollo-astronauts-thats-where-we-used-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"LRO Finds Lunar Landing Sites. Says Apollo Astronauts, &#8220;That&#8217;s Where We Used to Live&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we were busy figuring out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=1\">our database woes<\/a>, the 40 year anniversary of the NASA moon landing was heating up.  Timing was not our friend. During this time the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LRO_NASA\" class=\"external external_icon\">LRO<\/a>) took a gander at the moon, found the landing sites, and took pictures. They last longer.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LRO\/multimedia\/lroimages\/apollosites.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ScreenShot001.png\" alt=\"Apollo landing sites\" title=\"Apollo landing sites\" width=\"500\" height=\"589\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ScreenShot001.png 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ScreenShot001-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LRO_NASA\" class=\"external external_icon\">LRO<\/a> would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The LROC team anxiously awaited each image,&#8221; said LROC principal investigator Mark Robinson of Arizona State University. &#8220;We were very interested in getting our first peek at the lunar module descent stages just for the thrill &#8212; and to see how well the cameras had come into focus. Indeed, the images are fantastic and so is the focus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via medicmike, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LRO\/multimedia\/lroimages\/apollosites.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">nasa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LRO_NASA\" class=\"external external_icon\">@LRO_NASA<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were busy figuring out our database woes, the 40 year anniversary of the NASA moon landing was heating up. Timing was not our friend. During this time the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took a gander at the moon, found the landing sites, and took pictures. They last longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[1403,103,1404,1406,1405,208,355,377,116],"class_list":["post-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-apollo","tag-awesome","tag-landing-sites","tag-lost-and-found","tag-lro","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-orbit","tag-proof-of-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}