{"id":15836,"date":"2018-04-09T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15836"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:25:41","slug":"video-a-lro-tour-of-the-moon-in-4k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15836","title":{"rendered":"Video: A LRO tour of the Moon in 4K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video tour of important sites on the Moon as seen in the imagery and sensor data collected by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>\u00a0(LRO) since it reached the Moon in September of 2009:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nasa.tumblr.com\/post\/172760161639\/a-tour-of-our-moon\" target=\"_d\">NASA \u2014 A Tour of our Moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nr5Pj6GQL2o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA&#8217;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=echo&amp;banner=146870N94VDD8MAPHT02&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=1a66b7640a95795359e192e9c202c69f&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video tour of important sites on the Moon as seen in the imagery and sensor data collected by the\u00a0Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\u00a0(LRO) since it reached the Moon in September of 2009:\u00a0NASA \u2014 A Tour of our Moon From the caption: Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: A LRO tour of the Moon in 4K<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-47q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15741,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15741","url_meta":{"origin":15836,"position":0},"title":"Video: Watch the Moon rotate in a time-lapse lunar day","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Pink Floyd notwithstanding, there is no \"Dark side of the Moon\" any more than there is a dark side of the earth. 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