Shadowalker
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This one launches later this year, becoming operational in January. With a resolution of a half a meter it should put to rest the crazies who insist the lunar landings were faked.
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Tom Nicolaides
http://www.first-light.org
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LadyAstronomer
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Like its Martian counterpart, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), LRO will help us better understand the moon's regolith. With its low (~50km) polar orbit, LRO will return hi-res images, day-night temperatures maps and UV albedo maps. The mission is the first in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration. In keeping with this "vision," LRO will focus on the moon's polar regions where continuous access to solar radiation might be possible. The poles may also hold water ice in permanently shadowed regions -- both important factors in determining a potential manned landing site.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) will provide meter-scale, hi-res images in black and white. It will also image the lunar surface in color and UV. It's multispectral imaging capabilities will map the mineralogy of the lunar regolith, providing us with data on regions of potential resources.
It is a good time for those of us working in the planetary sciences.  -- provided the funding holds. 
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scholastic sledgehammer
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Loc: Austin, Texas, USA
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With a resolution of a half a meter it should put to rest the crazies who insist the lunar landings were faked.
Probably not. They'll come up with something.
Sounds like a great mission, can't wait!
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Shadowalker
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Well, you may be right (those who will never acknowledge the facts of anything). Still, this may put an end to the so-called documentaries on the "faked" lunar landings.
Sorry guys. I take this personally. I happen to work for this civilian based space agency. Even if we had had a way to fake it, we could never have found a way to keep it secret.
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http://www.first-light.org
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scholastic sledgehammer
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Well, you may be right (those who will never acknowledge the facts of anything). Still, this may put an end to the so-called documentaries on the "faked" lunar landings.
Yup, that's the kind of folks I had in mind. And I agree about the so-called documentaries. I also agree about never finding a way to keep it secret. That is true of most of the "grassy knoll" conspiracies.
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Pess
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Loc: Toledo, Ohio
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Well, you may be right (those who will never acknowledge the facts of anything). Still, this may put an end to the so-called documentaries on the "faked" lunar landings.
Sorry guys. I take this personally. I happen to work for this civilian based space agency. Even if we had had a way to fake it, we could never have found a way to keep it secret.
Pesse (The Lunar Recon imagery will be faked by the same guy who was on the grassy knoll.) Mist
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dgs©
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Wouldn't it be something to find all the Apollo stuff tipped over and scattered around. 
I hope the whole program proceeds smoothly and returns lots of spectacular data.
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Shadowalker
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Wouldn't it be something to find all the Apollo stuff tipped over and scattered around.
I hope the whole program proceeds smoothly and returns lots of spectacular data.
hee hee... Indeed. That would be cool. Or perhaps a nasty note from the lunar janitor, "please clean up after yourselves..."
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HaleBopper
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Reged: 01/14/08
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Well, you may be right (those who will never acknowledge the facts of anything). Still, this may put an end to the so-called documentaries on the "faked" lunar landings.
Sorry guys. I take this personally. I happen to work for this civilian based space agency. Even if we had had a way to fake it, we could never have found a way to keep it secret.
I agree with you. These people who insist the lunar landings were faked absolutely infuriate me I know a few of them. They just love to display their proud ignorance....
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charlie g
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With both Japan and India haveing lunar orbitors in action, and with an Indian lunar rover very soon, and our 'lunar recon mission' now...I WONDER HOW WE ALL SHARE ANY DISCOVERED WATER ON THE MOON (??our moon??)? charlie guevara, NJ
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charlie g
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Whoops!!! I forgot..China has a lunar orbitor in action now ! charlie guevara NJ
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KI4YUN
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Hate to say it but america kind of claimed it first haha There is a flag up there I know it!
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llanitedave
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America did not "claim" the Moon. It supposedly belongs to "all mankind".
How that will work out when bases and quarries start getting built there will be open for discussion. Charlie is right to be concerned.
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Pess
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There was a note found on the moon during the last Apollo mission. It is rated Ultra Top-Secret.
It said.....
Pesse ("All your base are belong to us") Mist
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