{"id":7906,"date":"2014-05-24T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T15:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2014-05-24T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T15:55:48","slug":"the-moon-as-art-pick-the-most-artistic-lro-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7906","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Moon as Art&#8221; &#8211; pick the most artistic LRO image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lro.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>\u00a0project has\u00a0opened the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/lro.gsfc.nasa.gov\/MoonArt\/\" target=\"_d\">The\u00a0Moon as Art<\/a><\/em>\u00a0poll. Visitors can choose which of five images created by the project are the most aesthetically pleasing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission presents Moon As Art !The images in the collection were created using data gathered by LRO over the first 4.5 years of operations. These top 5 images are presented to you, the public, to decide which will be the cover of the Moon As Art collection. Voting is open from May 23 &#8212; June 6th. The winner will be announced with the release of the full collection on June 18, 2014, the 5th anniversary of LRO launch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lro.gsfc.nasa.gov\/MoonArt\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7907\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=7907\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linne_shade_scaleb1.png\" data-orig-size=\"860,860\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"linne_shade_scaleb[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linne_shade_scaleb1.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7907\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linne_shade_scaleb1.png\" alt=\"linne_shade_scaleb[1]\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linne_shade_scaleb1.png 860w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linne_shade_scaleb1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/linne_shade_scaleb1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\u00a0project has\u00a0opened the\u00a0The\u00a0Moon as Art\u00a0poll. Visitors can choose which of five images created by the project are the most aesthetically pleasing. To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission presents Moon As Art !The images in the collection were created using data gathered by LRO over the first 4.5 years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Moon as Art&#8221; &#8211; pick the most artistic LRO image<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[16,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-space-arts","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-23w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6972,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6972","url_meta":{"origin":7906,"position":0},"title":"Interactive mosaic of lunar north pole created from NASA LRO images","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the interactive\u00a0map of the lunar north pole\u00a0created from images taken by the\u00a0Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) : NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon\u2019s north polar region. 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