NASA creates high-res Moon map, taunts you about your terrestrial tethers

Chances are high that you’ll never set foot at the Moon. Sorry, we do not mean to rain in your parade (alright, maybe we do), however the closest you’ll ever get is gazing pictures or traipsing around Google Moon. NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) have been circling our rocky satellite capturing such images, and now 69,000 of them was stitched together to create the very best resolution topographic map of the lunar surface ever. The worldwide Lunar DTM 100 m topographic model has a scale of approximately 100 meters per-pixel, allowing researchers to raised know the way the crust is shaped and accurately scout landing sites for future missions — be they robotic or manned . Look at the source for a bigger image and some more details.

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