Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)

ODE: Moon

Mission: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Instrument: LROC

Instrument Team Site:

LROC Team Web Site

 

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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 Products:

PDS4 Collection

Description

PDS4 Bundle

Raw Data

Experiment Data Record

More Information:

urn:nasa:pds:lro-l-lroc-2-edr-v1.0

Calibrated Data

Calibrated data products

More Information:

urn:nasa:pds:lro-l-lroc-3-cdr-v1.0

Derived Data

LROC derived data

Types:

Binned Data Records

Narrow-Angle Camera Polar Map (BDRNPL)

Wide-Angle Camera Movie (BDRWMV)

Region of Interest Map (BDRROI)

Wide-Angle Camera Global Map (BDRWGL)

Mosaic Data Records

Empirically Normalized Wide Angle Camera Mosaic Data Record (MDREMP)

Photometrically normalized 7-color semi-global mosaic using Hapke parameter maps (MDRHAP)

Special Data Records

Narrow-Angle Camera Digital Terrain Map (SDNDTM)

Wide-Angle Camera Digital Terrain Map (SDWDTM)

Narrow-Angle Camera Digital Elevation Model Generated Using ISIS and ASP (ASPDTM)

Anaglyph Images

Four band map projected NAC photometric product (SDPPHO)

Hapke photometric parameter maps (SDWHAP)

WAC TiO2 Abundance Map (SDWTIO)

Wide-Angle Camera Monthly Global Coverage Mosaic (SDPWMG)

More Information:

urn:nasa:pds:lro-l-lroc-5-rdr

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.

The ODE website complements the PDS Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node's Atlas website by providing cross mission and instrument searches for imaging and non-imaging data products.