{"id":990,"date":"2013-03-06T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-03-06T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:19:57","slug":"lro-probes-the-moons-permanent-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"LRO probes the Moon&#8217;s permanent shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video describes the areas within some craters at the lunar south polar region that sunlight never reaches. The <a href=\"http:\/\/lro.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>, however, uses a laser altimeter system to measure the topology of those dark places.<\/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\/VEEqt_E4lnw?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>More info at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/vis\/a010000\/a011200\/a011218\/\" target=\"_d\">Goddard Multimedia Item 11218 &#8211; The Moon&#8217;s Permanently Shadowed Regions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/vis\/a000000\/a004000\/a004043\/\" target=\"_d\">SVS Animation 4043 &#8211; LRO Peers into Permanent Shadows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video describes the areas within some craters at the lunar south polar region that sunlight never reaches. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, however, uses a laser altimeter system to measure the topology of those dark places. More info at Goddard Multimedia Item 11218 &#8211; The Moon&#8217;s Permanently Shadowed Regions SVS Animation 4043 &#8211; LRO Peers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LRO probes the Moon&#8217;s permanent shadows<\/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":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","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-fY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6972,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6972","url_meta":{"origin":990,"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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