Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic spacecraft designed to acquire data to prepare for and support future human exploration of the Moon. LRO will spend at least one year in low (~50 km altitude), polar orbit to collect detailed information about the lunar environment. This planned 'exploration' mapping program will identify safe landing sites, characterize lighting and possible water/ice deposits at the poles, locate potential resources on the moon, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology.
  Launched on 18 June 2009 along with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), LRO and LCROSS are known as the vanguard of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. An optional extended phase of the mission is intended to emphasize data acquisition for scientific exploration of the Moon.

LRO Instruments

• CRATER – Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation
• DIVINER – Lunar Radiometer Experiment
• LAMP – Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project
• LEND – Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector
• LOLA – Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter
• LROC – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
• Mini-RF – Miniature Radio Frequency Technology Demonstration

The Imaging Node archives LROC and LAMP science data. The Geosciences Node, lead archiving node for LRO, has information about archive responsibilities for other instruments. (http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/lro/default.htm)
  The LROC consists of two narrow-angle cameras (NACs) that provide 0.5 meter-scale panchromatic images over a 5 km swath , a wide-angle camera (WAC) to provide images at a scale of 100 meters/pixel in seven color bands over a 60 km swath, and a Sequence and Compressor System (SCS) supporting data acquisition for both cameras. The LROC data sets are produced by the LROC Team at the Tempe campus of Arizona State University.
  LAMP is a far ultraviolet spectrograph that will measure the signal reflected from the night-side lunar surface and permanently shadowed regions. The LAMP Team at Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, provides LAMP data sets.

• Archive Plan
• Mission Description
• Spacecraft Description

Instrument and Data Archive Information

• LAMP
• EDR Dataset Description
• RDR Dataset Description
• Instrument Description
• Personnel
• References
• EDR Data Product SIS
• RDR Data Product SIS
• EDR Archive Volume SIS
• RDR Archive Volume SIS
• LROC
• EDR Dataset Description
• Calibrated Data Record (CDR) Dataset Description
• Instrument Description
• Personnel
• References
• EDR & CDR Data Product SIS
• EDR & CDR Archive Volume SIS