NASA Just Dropped Its Most Detailed Video Tour of the Moon Yet

April 12, 2018

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a breathtaking new video tour of the Moon in 4K resolution, stitching together some of the most detailed observations captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The video is a new version of an LRO Moon tour released back in 2011, but this time it has been enhanced to precision resolution and includes new data from the spacecraft, which has been in a polar orbit around the Moon since for nearly a decade.

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NASA Just Dropped Its Most Detailed Video Tour of the Moon Yet

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