NASA's LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon [annotated]

NASA image release November 16, 2011

 

The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.

 

This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side.

 

To read more on this image go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lro-topo.html

 

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/DLR/ASU

 

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