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The latest images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter with amazing views of craters, mountains, astronaut trails and the "dark side" of the moon.
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Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon on a low 50 km polar mapping orbit.
It was launched on 18 June 2009, in conjunction with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
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