LROC Calibrated Data

ODE: Moon

Mission: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Instrument: LROC

Instrument Team Site: LROC Team Web Site

PDS3 Data Set ID: LRO-L-LROC-3-CDR-V1.0DOI: 10.17189/1520241Citations of DOI: 10.17189/1520241

PDS4 Bundle: urn:nasa:pds:lro-l-lroc-3-cdrDOI:10.17189/bx7p-0d06

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has been designed to address two of the measurement requirements:

  • Landing site certification

  • Polar illumination

LROC will acquire images to assess meter and smaller scale features to facilitate safety analysis for potential lunar landing sites near polar resources and elsewhere on the Moon. Synoptic 100 m/pixel imaging of the poles during every orbit for a year will unambiguously identify regions of permanent shadow and permanent or near-permanent illumination.

In addition to these two primary objectives, LROC will return six other high-value datasets:

  • Meter-scale mapping of regions of permanent or near-permanent illumination of polar massifs

  • Multiple coregistered observations of portions of potential landing sites and elsewhere for derivation of high-resolution topography through stereogrammetric and photometric stereo analyses

  • A global multispectral data set in 7 wavelengths (300-680 nm) to characterize lunar resources, in particular ilmenite

  • A global 100- m/pixel basemap with incidence angles (60-80Á) favorable for morphologic interpretations

  • Sub-meter imaging of a variety of geologic units to characterize physical properties and variability of the regolith

  • Meter-scale coverage overlapping with Apollo era Panoramic images (1-2 m/pixel) to document the number of small impacts since 1971-1972, to ascertain hazards for future surface operations and interplanetary travel.

LROC Calibrated Data Products

Type

Description

PDS4 Collection

CDRNAC

Calibrated Data - Calibrated Panchromatic Narrow-Angle Camera Images

More information:

urn:nasa:pds:lro-l-lroc-3-cdr-v1.0:lrolrc_10**:data.nac

CDRWAC

CDRWAM

CDRWAU

CDRWAV

Calibrated Data - Calibrated Monochromatic and Seven-Band Wide-Angle Camera Images

More information:

urn:nasa:pds:lro-l-lroc-3-cdr-v1.0:lrolrc_10**:data.wac

Note: LROC products are stored at the PDS LROC Data Node. Please read more about the use of products stored at other PDS nodes in the “Why are there differences between HiRISE, CTX, and the other ODE products” section.

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