Apollo 15 landing site

Apollo 15 landing site
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Altimetric ranging systems and the ability to determine the position of the LRO spacecraft lead to significantly greater accuracy than that achieved on earlier missions.

This LOLA topographic map, centered on the Apollo 15 landing site, highlights the Apennine and Caucasus ranges and the fairly subtle wrinkling in Serenitatis. The false colors indicate elevation: red areas are highest and blue lowest.

December 28, 2010 4:00 AM PST

Photo by: NASA/GSFC/MIT/SVS

| Caption by: James Martin

 

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