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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images

News release: “NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras — a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium. As the moon rotates beneath LRO, LROC gradually will build up photographic maps of the lunar surface…view these first calibration images here.”

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