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1. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Camera
Christian N. Alf
Mentor: Mark S. Robinson
Arizona State University
School of Earth and Space Exploration
NASA Space Grant Symposium
April 18, 2009

2. Return to the Moon
• NASA plans to return humans to the
Moon by 2020
• Many questions remain about the Moon
• Know more about Mars

3. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• First US mission in plan
to return to the moon
– Acquires scientific
measurements necessary
to support human return
to the moon
• Launches June 2009

4. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
• Primary Goals
– Study meter-scale features
– Landing site selection
– Image lunar poles
• Areas of permanent shadow
• Cameras
– Two Narrow Angle Cameras (NAC)
• 0.5 meter per pixel resolution
• Stereo Images
• Look for future landing sites
– Wide Angle Camera (WAC)
• 100 meter per pixel resolution
• Multispectral Images

5. Cameras
WAC
NAC

6. Wilhelm’s Geologic History Map
• Groups similar
aged features
• Used to help
target NAC

7. Apollo Panoramic Scans
• Scans of original Apollo flight film
• Data verification
• Compare data with LROC to find rate of
cratering

8. Apollo Surface Mosaics
• High resolution scans
of Apollo images
• Use NAC to image
landing sites
• Used to adjust eyes to
0.5 m/px resolution

9. Apollo Surface Mosaics

10. Apollo Image Scans
• Images available online
• Currently Apollo 15, 16 and 17 metric
data (~8 m/px)
• http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/