Rising Sun
November 27, 2012
In this image, the LRO spacecraft was looking down from an altitude of 187 km to see the sun rising on a new lunar day near the crater Goldschmidt D. Only a small portion of a crater rim caught the sun while everything around it remained in darkness.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Topics:
Unmanned spacecraft, Space, Spaceflight, Environment, Technology Internet, Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Sun, Goldschmidt, Exploration of the Moon, Goddard Space Flight Center, Planemos, Moons, Moon
