Monday, January 16, 2012

Dark Side of the Moon Revealed: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Reveals Lunar Surface Features

Reference: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120113210608.htm
Summary: New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. uses a novel method to peer into these so-called permanently shadowed regions (psrs), making visible the invisible. LAMP's principal investigator is Dr. Alan Stern, associate vice president of the SwRI Space Science and Engineering Division.

Critique: it was interesting and didn't know that the moon has a darkside.

Impact: good be helpful in the future to find other plantes that have a darkside to them.

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