Future Exploration of the South Pole as Enabled by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

• Main Authors: Lawrence, Samuel J., Stopar, Julie, Speyerer, Emerson J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; De Gerlache; Gerlache; Parry; Rima; Shackleton; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160012274

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched in 2009 to collect the dataset required for future surface missions and to answer key questions about the lunar surface environment. In the first seven years of operations, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) acquired over a million images o...