NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon for the past few years, snapping away, taking hi-res pictures of ... That is Apollo 12, my friends, the location where humans ...

The last time astronauts walked on the moon was in December of 1972, decades before high-definition video cameras were available. They relied on low-res grainy ... of the lunar rover heading ...

Hot on the heels of the remastering of the Apollo ... next NASA lunar probe. Over the next three years he and his team will be scanning in the original lunar photographs at high resolution ...

Forty years after Apollo 11 touched ... dome to send high resolution images and audio back to Earth. Though not a requirement of the official Lunar X challenge, the rover will also attempt to ...

On July 27, NASA announced that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) had solved the puzzle of the fate of the Apollo lunar ... reconnaissance. The high resolution images sent back ...

Some of its workers are now designing the “ultimate” off-road vehicle — a working lunar rover ... of the moon rover and the static model that will be part of our Apollo exhibit,” Dr ...

The new Lego Technic "NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - LRV" set ... the fine wire mesh that made up the dish of the high-gain antenna and the rover's mesh tires (though the latter is molded ...

Due to instrumental limitations of previous missions, a global map of the Moon’s topography at high resolution ... dataset that lunar scientists have waited for since the Apollo era,” says ...

This article is part of Apollo: A Lunar Legacy, a multi-part series ... an odometer and a modified sundial as backup. Because no high-resolution maps of the moon’s surface existed at the time ...

Lunar rovers ... from the lunar rover during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. This occurred through either the low-gain antenna when the vehicle was in motion or the high-gain antenna when ...