NASA’s LRO Views ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Moon Lander Impact Site
On June 11, the LRO of NASA (Lunar Recognition Orbiter) captured photos of the site where the Lunar Lander Lunar Mission 2 SMBC X Hakuto-R experienced a hard landing on June 5, 2025, UTC.
Resilience was launched on January 15 on a spacecraft funded by the private people.
The LRO narrow angle camera (one in a series of cameras known as Lroc) captured the images presented here at around 50 miles above the surface of Mare fridge, a volcanic region interspersed with large-scale faults called wrinkle ridges.
The black spot visible above the arrow on the photo formed when the vehicle has an impact on the surface, giving a boost – the rock and the dust that make up the moon “soil”. The low shiny halo surrounding the site results from low -angle regolithic particles covering the delicate surface.
Lro is managed by Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA In Greenbelt, Maryland, for the management of the scientific mission at the NASA headquarters in Washington. Launched on June 18, 2009, LRO collected a data treasure with its seven powerful instruments, making an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the moon. NASA returns to the moon with business and international partners to extend human presence in space and bring new knowledge and opportunities.
Find out more about this history of the LRO camera website of Arizona State University
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