Sentences with phrase «lunar orbiter shows»

Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 lunar orbiter shows a diverse mineralogy in the subsurface of the giant South Pole Aitken basin.

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Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

After training on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images covering about one - third of the moon's surface, the program was shown another third of the lunar landsLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images covering about one - third of the moon's surface, the program was shown another third of the lunar landslunar landscape.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known oLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known olunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

Mexico's Chicxulub crater, named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the moon's far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map.