March 17, 2010

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The End of Secrets

LPOD-Mar17-10.jpg

image by Phil Stooke, Ontario, Canada

Nearly every early mission to the lunar surface came with a mystery - where did the spacecraft land or crash? Now, with the half meter resolution LRO images we are beginning to find the answers. Lunokhod 2 was an amazing rover that was landed in eastern Le Monnier in January, 1973 and roamed the surface, ultimately covering 37 km. The vehicle was driven by Chuck Wood
Correction
Sasha Basilevsky and Jeff Plescia pointed out that the Lunokhod is NOT shown in these images - it is north of this area by a few hundred meters. See Phil's comment. Also, the LRO team has assembled an excellent series of images showing both the Lunokhod 1 and 2 rovers. Wow!

Technical Details
Phil was able to find and extract these images from the PDS system - progress is being made in learning to access the LRO data. The inset is LROC image M109039075LE.


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