Lunar Orbiter
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For the study, the researchers primarily used data from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, instruments onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Moon since 2009.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
The $200 million Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also called Danuri—“enjoy the Moon” in Korean—will study the Moon from a polar orbit for at least a year.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 10, 2022
Originally known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, the mission was given the name Danuri after it became the winning entry in a naming contest.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022
The first spacecraft, Lunar Orbiter 1, left Earth on August 10, 1966—92 hours later it was orbiting the moon.
From US News • Aug. 23, 2011
Surveyor I and Lunar Orbiter II have illumined the moon as being little more than an ugly grey rock pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
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