Imaging the Moon with LROC

A 3-D DEM (digital elevation model) of the topography seen by the Apollo 16 astronauts, including South Ray crater, has been created by researchers at the Ohio State Mapping & GIS Lab as their first results from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera (LROC).

The Lab's DEM is featured on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter website and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, launched June 18 from the Kennedy Space Center, is the first mission in the United State's new Vision for Space Exploration program. The spacecraft will orbit the Moon for as many as five years taking images in search of valuable lunar resources and potential future landing sites.

For more information on the LRO mission, please visit http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/ or the LROC homepage at http://lroc.sese.asu.edu. The work of the Mapping & GIS Lab at The Ohio State University can be found at http://shoreline.eng.ohio-state.edu.