NASA Goddard's Dr. Noah Petro discusses the
significance of the new Apollo images from LRO. (Credit: Chris Smith,
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) plus pictures in High-Res

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon for the
past few years, snapping away, taking hi-res pictures of the lunar
surface from a height of a mere 50 kilometers (30 miles). A few weeks
ago, NASA commanded the probe to dip lower, allowing even closer, more
detailed shots. Skimming the surface at a mere 21 km (13 miles), it took this amazing shots of a site where humans once walked on the Moon