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Is there any naming significance to it's similarity to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ? 70.29.212.226 (talk) 06:56, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Best regards from Italy, dott.Piergiorgio (talk) 21:08, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
It's good that the article mentions how the loony... ahem, lunar conspiracy theories will be further discredited. It should be kept in the article.--76.116.105.50 (talk) 21:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
blurry, pixelated images of the moon with arrows and text prove that man landed on the moon? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.41.241.129 (talk) 06:00, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
I just made quite a few changes:
Looks a smidgen cramped. Maybe move onboard instrument image to left. Maybe zap last image or move it left. Please feel free to rearrange or revert what I've done.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:11, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
It would be good if the caption of the first image could state its scale. What is the size of the area covered? Bubba73 (talk), 01:23, 4 July 2009 (UTC) Done
I just came across this article on NASA's page about how the LRO has photographed some of the past Moon Landing sites [1]. They say that these shots were taken while the LRO was still going into orbit and that they do plan on taking higher resolution shots of the landing sites, but already you can make out the tracks the astronauts made on the moon. I don't know if this can be worked into the article as much as to keep an eye on it for future additions if the community so agrees. Either way I thought it was kind of cool. Brothejr (talk) 00:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Somebody should add the images. I also heard that LRO would be capable of seeing the Russian robotic landers. It also has yet to image Apollo 12. Is there any information on when an image of any of those will be available?--SkiDragon (talk) 02:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review in order to move it towards GA status. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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RJHall comments:
Thanks.—RJH (talk) 19:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm vaguely troubled by the section devoted to "flexplan", the mission planning software. There isn't a comparable level of detail (nor do I think it urgently needed) decribing the companies involved in the onboard instruments. It reads to me just a little like an advertorial for the company making the software. Unless there's strong consensus that's it's an important part of the article, I'd like to remove it. Lissajous (talk) 19:20, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I've removed it. I was going to leave a copy here of the material removed, but it's available as revision [319368217] of the page history. Lissajous (talk) 10:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Until it's proven with evidence, I suggest adding 'alleged' to the image captions. Blurry photos with arrows and text do not accurately show any landing sites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.41.241.129 (talk) 06:11, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Apollo sites from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter says "LRO has now returned to its circular orbit of 50 km above the surface. This altitude requires monthly reboosts and since keeping LRO in that orbit would quickly exhaust the remaining fuel, in mid-December [2011], LRO will move to an elliptical orbit, (30 km over south pole and 200 km over north pole). LRO will be able to stay in this orbit for several more years."
Could article say : Why does the 50km orbit need monthly reboosts ?
and why doesn't the elliptical orbit that comes down to 30 km ? - Rod57 (talk) 11:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
The (approximately) circular orbit is low at all points of the trajectory, which means it's subjected to a multitude of gravitational fluctuations each revolution from the various mountains, valleys, craters and large "mascons" (mass concentrations) beneath the mare regions. These generate a lot of drag which alters the orbit, bringing its periapsis progressively downward. Without reboosts the shape of the orbit will eventually intersect the lunar surface. At higher altitudes the fluctuations have less relative influence on the orbit over lengthy stretches of time. The 30 x 200 elliptical orbit spends most of its time at high altitudes than low ones, so the need for reboosts is much less frequent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.60 (talk) 03:32, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
1850W seems abnormally high. This website states 460W http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?InFlight=1&MCode=LRO&Display=ReadMore — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.110.2.38 (talk) 03:03, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Probably this article needs some specifications of Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) - to address common question "Why on images of Earth we can distinguish cars and humans, and on NAC's images whole Apollos are presented as just few pixels?" NACs have 195-mm mirrors and weight 16.4 kg both, in comparison to cameras on earth imaging satellites, having 0.5-1 meter optics and weighting hundreds of kilograms. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/EPO/LROC/lroc.php?pg=specifications 89.222.193.187 (talk) 04:57, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Here's a source which confirms funding for the 2nd extended mission : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/pss/sep2014/2014_PMSR_results_9_2%20_14.pdf
Hope that's of some help Chrislintott (talk) 17:20, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Fn 28 links to the current page of the Huntsville Times, not to the article cited. Kdammers (talk) 12:56, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Parts of this article were obviously written before its flight, and thus talk in terms of plans: "LRO will do such-and-such". These should be changed from future to past tense as the craft accomplished specific objectives (or not). JustinTime55 (talk) 14:54, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
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