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Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC Landing Site Orthomosaic 50cm v1

application/zip 6 MBMay 01 2018

Product Information: This is an (ortho-) mosaic map of the Apollo 17 landing site (L15K 20.2/30.7East COMT). The map includes nomenclature, elevation contours, the astronauts' major geology stops,…

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Moon LRO LOLA - SELENE Kaguya TC Shaded Relief Merge 60N60S 59m v1

image/jpeg 199 kBSep 08 2015

Product Information: The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) Kaguya Teams have created this shaded relief of the improved lunar digital elevation…

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Moon LRO LOLA - SELENE Kaguya TC DEM Merge 60N60S 59m v1

image/jpeg 112 kBFeb 04 2015

Product Information: The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) Kaguya Teams have created an improved lunar digital elevation model (DEM) covering…

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Moon LRO LOLA DEM 118m v1

image/jpeg 95 kBMar 11 2014

Product Information: This digital elevation model (DEM) is based on data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA; Smith et al., 2010), an instrument on the National Aeronautics and Space Agency…

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Moon Crater Database v1 Robbins

application/zip 92 MBAug 15 2018

Product Information: The Lunar Crater Database contains approximately 1.3 million lunar impact craters and is approximately complete for all craters larger than about 1–2 km in diameter…

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Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC Orthomosaic 50cm v1

image/tiff 1 kBMay 01 2018

Product Information: This is an orthomosaic of the Apollo 17 landing site created from images provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). The images…

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Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC DEM 1.5m v1

image/tiff 1 kBMay 01 2018

Product Information: This is a digital elevation model (DEM/DTM) of the Apollo 17 landing site generated from stereo images provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle…

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Moon Apollo Metric Albedo Mosaic v1

application/pds-img 84 kBJan 15 2010

The Apollo Metric Cameras were carried on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions to map Earth’s Moon with a high degree of geometric fidelity. This PDS volume contains the "Apollo 15, 16, and 17…

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Moon Apollo Lunar Sample Photographs

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Product Information: This set of archive volumes contains digital scanned versions of original film photographs of rock, soil, and core samples collected from the lunar surface during the Apollo 11,…

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Moon SELENE Kaguya TC Evening Global Mosaic 474m v4

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Product Information: This near-global mosaic was generated using data from the SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) “Kaguya” Terrain Camera (TC) instrument. TC source data originated…

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Moon Apollo Image Processing

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-image-processing

In the early 1970s, specialized cameras onboard the Command Modules of the last three Apollo missions (15, 16, 17) photographed nearly 25% of the Moon in stunning detail. Today, scientists from…

Astrogeology 1963-2013: Fifty Years of Exploration

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/astrogeology-1963-2013-fifty-years-of-exploration

Grover Photo Collection

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/photos/grover-photo-collection

The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an engineering miracle, but It would have collapsed on Earth under the weight of a suited astronaut. That's because it was designed to operate in lunar gravity,…

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Interactive GIS Map of the Moon

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/mrctr/moon-online-map

Layers available for download from:USGS AstrogeologyData Portal: Astropediahistorical FTP downloads

Grover - Geologic Rover

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/grover

The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an engineering miracle, but It would have collapsed on Earth under the weight of a suited astronaut. That's because it was designed to operate in lunar gravity,…

Making Craters - Mare Tranquillitatis in Flagstaff Arizona

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/making-craters

The moon's Mare Tranquillitatis is an ancient plain of volcanic rock pocked with craters and coated with fine dust. In the 1960s, engineers and scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey's…

Rocket Flight

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/rocket-flight

The 1960s Apollo Lunar Module could support two men for three days, and the Apollo space suits carried only enough oxygen and cooling water for eight hours of work on the moon. Because of these…

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Videos

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos

The RPIF's 16-mm film collection contains historic films related to astronaut training, equipment field tests, geological expeditions and more.

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Moon Control Networks

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/control-networks/moon

Lunar Orbiter Lunar Control Network 2004 The USGS worked to digitize and restore a global set of Lunar Orbiter images and to assemble this into a global digital Lunar Orbiter mosaic of the Moon. A…

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Moon Pyroclastic Volcanism Project

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/moon-pyroclastic-volcanism-project

Project Overview The goal of this research project is to advance our understanding of pyroclastic volcanism on the Moon using remote sensing data, primarily the high-spatial-resolution (~100 m/pixel)…

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GIS Data in PDS4

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PowerPoint Presentation

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USGS Astrogeology 50th Anniversary Flyer

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The USGS Astrogeology Science Center Honoring 50 Years of Public Service: Exploring the Solar System from Flagstaff, AZ

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ISPRS 2001 Lunar Orbiter Digitization and Cartographic Processing

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Digitization and cartographic processing of 5 Lunar Orbiter (LO) IV frames (109H, 110H, 114H, 115H, and 114M) are now complete, and these data are available online at…