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Enlargement of Luna 24

Week of 03/29/2010. Robotic exploration missions provide NASA vast amounts of data to prepare for future human exploration missions and learn more about the universe. LROC Pinpoints Location of Luna 24

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Enlargement of Luna 24

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  1. Week of 03/29/2010 Robotic exploration missions provide NASA vast amounts of data to prepare for future human exploration missions and learn more about the universe. LROC Pinpoints Location of Luna 24 Research Objective: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) aims tomeasure robotic and human sample sites on the moon in meters. Description: LROC has detected that Luna 24, the 1976 Soviet robotic sample return spacecraft, landed on the ejecta of a relatively fresh impact crater measuring 60 m wide. The Luna 24 site’s location was previously thought to be one or two km away. The composition of the sample was confusing as it was higher in titanium than expected. Time Frame: Photos were taken on January 29, 2010. Results: The Luna 24 soil composition sample does not closely match orbital-based titanium estimates. The LROC image indicates the returned sample may be from a different material excavated five meters or more from below the surface of the nearby crater. Data from lower resolution instruments, such as Moon Mineralogy Mapper (Chandrayaan) and Spectral Profiler (Selene), can be tied more accurately to the sample location to finally solve this mystery. Learn more: http://www.nasa.gov/lro http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/index.html Provide a brief description of the image. Luna 24 sitting on the edge of a 60 meter diameter crater, Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) image M119449091RE. Enlargement of Luna 24 http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/multimedia/highlights

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