Spaceflight 🚀Top of many researchers’ lists is the Orientale basin — a 930-kilometre-wide, multi-ringed impact basin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mare_Orientale
Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 📆 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of #mapping the lunar surface before the #Apollo landings. All five missions were successful, and 99% of the #Moon was photographed with a resolution of 60 m or better https://lpl.arizona.edu/missions/lunar-orbiter
#LRO launched in 📆 2009 on a mission to create high-resolution 🔍 topography #maps for future #NASA astronauts. The telescope 🔭 and camera system can see details up to 2.5 meters across. The cameras have captured views of the #Apollo sites so detailed you can see astronauts’ footprints 👣 https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter
