Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Apollo 17 landing site.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State

A fascinating collection of featured Moon sites is available, based on some of the most requested images snagged by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s LROC super-powerful imaging system.

Available for viewing are newly discovered lunar features to the closest images of the Apollo landing sites since astronauts departed the scene in 1972.

The impressive website features:

— 21st Century Spacecraft Impacts

— 21st Century Landing Sites

— New Impacts

— Apollo Landing Sites

— Apollo S-IVB Impact Sites

— Surveyor Landing Sites

— Ranger Impact Sites

— Luna Landing Sites

— Lunokhod Rover Sites

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Special thanks to Mark Robinson and colleagues at Arizona State University ‘s School of Earth and Space Exploration. Robinson is the principal investigator for the LROC imaging system.

Take a look at:

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/featured_sites