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Low-Flying Moon Probe Spies Craters And Mountains While Seeking Stars
A series of images from NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) in Februrary 2014 showing the moon. Credit: NASA Ames
While NASA’s newest lunar probe was tracking the stars, it also captured the moon! This series of star tracker images shows Earth’s closest large neighbour from a close-up orbit. And as NASA explains, the primary purpose of these star-tracking images from the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was not the lunar pictures themselves.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: LADEE, lunar dust, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, star tracking images, yutu
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