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Close Encounters of the Lunar Kind – LRO images LADEE
This dissolve animation compares the LRO image (geometrically corrected) of LADEE captured on Jan 14, 2014 with a computer-generated and labeled image of LADEE . LRO and LADEE are both NASA science spacecraft currently in orbit around the Moon. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
A pair of NASA spacecraft orbiting Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor just experienced a ‘Close Encounter of the Lunar Kind’.
Proof of the rare orbital tryst has now been revealed by NASA in the form of spectacular imagery (see above and below) just released showing NASA’s recently arrived Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) lunar orbiter photographed by a powerful camera aboard NASA’s five year old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) – as the two orbiters met for a fleeting moment just two weeks ago.
See above a dissolve animation that compares the LRO image (geometrically corrected) of LADEE captured on Jan. 14, 2014 with a computer-generated and labeled image LADEE.(…)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: LADEE, LRO, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Moon, NASA, yutu lunar lander
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/108748/close-encounters-of-the-lunar-kind-lro-images-ladee/
