images

High resolution mosaic of the lunar nearside by LRO

by

Nasa/GSFC/ASU/Novapix

Reference

a-lun07-01052

Date

2011-02-23

For two weeks in mid-December 2010, the LRO spacecraft remained nadir looking (straight down) so that the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) could acquire about 1300 images, allowing the LROC team to construct this spectacular mosaic.