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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

A spacecraft with solar panels extends from its sides, featuring a large, detailed representation of the Moon at its center, symbolizing the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's mission to study lunar surface features.

NASA spacecraft launched in 2009, in low polar orbit around the Moon. Its narrow-angle camera resolves features as small as half a metre, allowing it to image every Apollo landing site, the Lunokhod rovers, and recent Chinese and Indian landers. The orbiter's relocation of Lunokhod 1 in 2010 led directly to the first laser returns from that reflector in nearly forty years.

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