2024-04-15 01:21:03
NasaIn 2009, NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Its current mission is to map the lunar surface in detail, locating possible landing sites, resources and interesting features such as lava tubes.
By: Clarion
The mission is a continued success, another example of NASA’s skill. It has mapped about 98.2% of the lunar surface, excluding deeply shadowed regions in the polar areas.
But recently, the LRO team’s skill was evident for another reason: it captured images of another satellite speeding over the lunar surface, ScienceAlert reports.
South Korea launched its Danuri lunar orbiter in August 2022. It is the country’s first lunar orbiter and its mission is to develop and test technologies, including space Internet, and create a topographic map of the lunar surface.
The map will help select future landing sites and identify resources such as uranium, helium-3, silicon, aluminum and water ice.
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