Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - Eyes on the Moon

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We're going back to the moon hopefully in 2024 but compared to the 1960's we need to know a lot more about the moon than we did then if we are to make permanent bases there. So to this end, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was created to map the moon in greater detail than ever before and in the process, it did what no other orbiter has managed to do and that find and image the Apollo sites after 5 decades of being out of sight to us.
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[@mboiko]

Crazy days...my Mom would take my brother and me to the beach in the Summer then later swing by Grumman in Bethpage NY to pick up my Dad who worked on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) Program. White shirt and tie and in the Summer...and it was long sleeve white shirt and tie in the Winter. During an Apollo mission, he would occasionally have to stay at work where they had a mock-up/simulator. He later went to Fairchild/Republic in Farmingdale NY to work in the A-10 (Warthog) Program. I was there when the first A-10 prototype was loaded on a C-5A watching from the fence. They are all gone now Rob died in 94...Dad Aug 21, 2019, and Mom from COVID Nov 4 2020... When I watch a video like this many of the memories come back....those sure were crazy days.

[@cameraop8210]

Great memories... sorry to hear about your mum and covid...

[@mboiko]

@@cameraop8210 Thanks...

[@followthegrow108]

Awe. May they rest in peace. Hope all is well. Sending prayers your way

[@gregsayles9253]

Thank's for your dad's work!--& Sorry for your losses over the yrs... At least you have the memories & can help testify to us going to the moon in the first place, along with this video, which helps put to rest the nuts out there saying we never went😅!

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[@xray86delta]

As a child, I loved the moon missions! What a treat to see the artifacts after all these years!

[@spacecatboy2962]

wow, go all the way to the moon and miss seeing a crater by 30 feet

[@S1nwar]

i would be so scared if everything looks the same and the one feature you got a direction for just doesnt show up and you only got a few hours

[@spacecatboy2962]

@@S1nwar one thing about it though, as long as you could look down and see a trail of tracks, you could find your way back since no one else had ever left any tracks there before

[@mojoblues66]

6:29 it was 30 meters. nobody doing science is using your funny ancient units.

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@@mojoblues66 Actually the US aerospace industry still uses Imperial units.

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@@sunnyjim1355 didn’t know photoshop existed in the 60’s

[@TheblueTraxxasRustler]

@@9233267 exactly

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[@2handsomeforlaw]

"!the resolution was low" Well, that must be the best understatement so far in 2021! :D

[@whatdoiput807]

This is insane. This whole video gave me goosebumps. To be on the moon in the sixties in a goofy little car, driving for hours away from the goofy little ship that got you there to get rocks and hope you can make it back. And now we can go back and see where they were and what they missed out on. This is unreal.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Well, kinda. The traverses in the LRV were limited in distance by what was termed the "walk-back limit". As its name suggests, they were not allowed to travel farther from the LEM than the distance they could walk (based on the amount of O2 in their PLSSs).

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[@johnroby6524]

@@nigeldepledge3790 That is also the reason the different "stations" they went to always started out furthest from the LM.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@@johnroby6524 - Yes, exactly. Because the walk-back limit decreased as the astronauts consumed the oxygen in their PLSSs.

[@tylerwickwire1522]

I still want them to re visit apollo 11 on live TV so I can see one of my favorite moments in history. That'd be amazing.

[@TechNed]

It's an historic site. Everything about it, every footprint needs to be preserved. Humans first footprints on another world can't be trampled over and erased for a 21st century stunt.

[@oldlincolnpipewelder]

Me too… I’d love to see it up close to make sure “Other rovers from hostile countries” didn’t stop by to desecrate it.. If you catch my drift.

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[@hangie65]

Excellent video. A very nice summary and explanation of what LRO is all about, including the stunning images of the Apollo landing sites.

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Guess we will need to send up a giant tunnel digger from Elon musks boring company to dig underground and build it there. Vertical integration and all that...

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thank youuuu for this vid!!! I have been waiting all my life to see images of the lunar landers from a follow up mission to the moon, and finally got it plus more! So cool!:)

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[@stile8686]

Great video. Good to hear the LRO is still doing good work. These longer missions tend to get less noticed as time goes on. A bit surprised you didn't mention the Lunar Orbiter program in 1966-1967 which had a similar goal to the more recent LRO and the previous Ranger although a lot of concentration on potential landing sites. Five orbiters produced images with resolutions between 60m up to as little as 1m. LRO is far in advance of them but it is unfortunate that they are forgotten between the more dramatic Rangers and Apollo landings. Still you did a great job on the LRO.

[@T_Mo271]

Indeed. The Apollo landing sites were surveyed by the Lunar Orbiter cameras. I don't think that landing site surveys were the primary Ranger mission.

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[@johnladuke6475]

Doesn't matter how good the imaging is, LRO's never gonna get a picture of Apollo 13's landing site.

[@NorthDicks]

@John La Duke Yes you are right John. At 4.20-4.23 the images of the moon crater was so sharp. But when it turn to shoots those apollo's junk/debris the images suddenly becomes BLUR nor only a dot pixel... 🤔🤔🤪

[@DanSlotea]

@@NorthDicks you know 13 never landed, do you?

[@mikester1290]

@@NorthDicks Yes, like the man said Apollo 13 never landed on the moon, however if your talking about the site where they did land, I think the orbiter was at much higher altitude when it took those shots so it does explain the lower res.

[@robertmiller9735]

That's 'cause the only Apollo 13 landing site is on Earth.

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Really outstanding work on this video! Best explanation yet of LRO and some of the great things it has found though unexpected. You do such a good job explaining things in an interesting yet accurate way that NASA and ESA should pay you a stipend!

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Unless i set foot on the moon myself, i dont need to believe it

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6:00. Now I see the frustration of getting so close to cone crater

[@AnonAnonAnon]

This should be used in schools all around the world. First to inform, and second to show that the Apollo missions were never faked.

[@curiouscat8457]

Wouldn't help... These photos are, obviously, faked too... :-)

[@AnonAnonAnon]

@@curiouscat8457 Double yawn. If any of this was faked, the Russians would be shouting from the tallest building with evidence.

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[@ChaJ67]

It is pretty crazy to think that back in the 1960's all of this tech was invented and built from the ground up to make Apollo work. We have benefited greatly from this. The technology has transformed our society. This is why when we do this again now and in the upcoming years, we can do it a lot better because from the Apollo program catalyst and even ideas voiced back then by engineers and scientists, but just not pulled off back then, people have been refining and evolving this technology for everyday use on Earth as well as many more missions to space, providing us with much better tools and instruments now we can use for these missions without inventing it from scratch. Getting back to doing long term crewed missions to other places like Luna, to really do this right we have to invent a bunch of new technology and deepen our understanding of both human biology and biology in general to make self sustaining systems elsewhere in the solar system. This is a grand challenge problem. The things we can learn could be what we need to transform our society here on Earth into a self sustaining one as we will have to solve these problems for reals for it to work elsewhere in the solar system. There is something else really important and that is while Wernher von Braun wanted to recover the first stage of the Saturn V and the USA successfully tested a nuclear thermal rocket engine meant to be the Saturn V 3rd stage before the program was cancelled in the Nixon administration, we have been recovering Falcon 9 first stages for a while now, SpaceX is working on recovering both stages of the Starship rocket, of which Elon Musk states has a slightly higher delta-V than a hydrogen rocket due to methane being more dense and warmer (still cryogenic) and thus a lower ending mass due to much lighter fuel tanks while also producing a great deal more thrust than hydrogen, plus there has been a renewed interest in nuclear thermal. So we could bring the cost of getting into LEO and even going back to Luna way down to the point where it starts making sense to try to send people back to Luna. So consider this model: 1. SpaceX Starship using 3mm 30X stainless steel alloy, which is stronger than titanium, and a stable oil rig platform in the ocean to land on without the mass of landing legs and doing on a ballistic trajectory like the Falcon 9 uses with drone ships, lifts somewhere on the order of 150 metric tonnes to LEO per launch. As some stripped down Starship second stages would be handy in space, lift some over-sized space station modules into LEO Falcon 9 payload fairing style shaped mounted on top of a cut off, stripped down Starship second stage making a one way trip to LEO. The idea being you may be able to get somewhere around 350 metric tonnes into LEO this way and then refill that stripped down second stage for other missions. 2. A large new space station in LEO supplied by many reusable Starship launches every year carrying loads of people, supplies, fuel, and projects to the station. A lot more science happens as well as space based manufacturing and commercial activities. There will be a big focus on figuring out sustainable human activity in the solar system by using this space station as a test bed of ideas and technologies. This will encompass a wide range of processing raw materials in space, space based manufacturing, and both small scale and large scale experiments and projects in biology such as radiation shielding, what are the real parameters needed for artificial gravity (we don't know how big of a radius or how much gravity is needed), sustainable food growth, and how other life forms on Earth can handle various environments we can create on the space station, at least a sufficiently large one. With manufacturing happening at the space station, maybe you fabricate new large structural modules at the space station using say inflatable modules to house the main work space for each project while say 3D printing and other machine shop modules attach to it. For say a very large space based telescope, you get the main structure built at the space station and then ship up all of the smaller, more complicated parts from Earth. Another commercial manufacturing may be making ZBLAN fiber at the space station. 3. With all of this activity at a space station in LEO, it becomes the hopping off point for going to Luna. For the actual trip to Luna, a nuclear thermal module is added to a modularized Starship, which has its Raptor engines removed and is turned into a nuclear thermal rocket with fuel tanks to carry LOX/LNG propellant to Luna as well as other cargo / people to bring to Luna. As the delta-V to go to LLO (low lunar orbit) and aerobrake on the way back is easy enough for nuclear thermal (using LH2) where otherwise with chemical (reactions as opposed to thermal heating) it would be pretty bad, a dramatic improvement in cost to go to Luna is achieved as well as allowing large shipments to Luna via this transfer ship. This modularized nuclear thermal Starship would need to have adequate heat shielding to aerobrake, however you only need the modules in place when returning to Earth, so this opens up some possibilities for ferrying oversized loads to Luna. 4. Once the transfer ship makes it to LLO (low Lunar orbit), it transfers its stored LOX/LNG fuel to say a Lunar optimized Starship as well as its payload over. There could be a few different Lunar optimized Starships such as crew, cargo, combo, and stripped down sky crane. The sky crane is of particular interest because for dropping off stuff on the Lunar surface, it could potentially set something very heavy down with basically nothing more than fuel tanks, some vacuum optimized Raptor engines, maybe scaled down for Luna appropriate thrust, and a tether (basically the stripped down Starship mentioned earlier), and then fly back into LLO. 5. With a large carrying capacity to the surface of Luna, the next step for a base is to build a maglev launch and landing track. This way instead of carrying a large amount of LOX/LNG for a rocket to descend to the surface of Luna and then fly back to LLO, only a very small amount of extra propellant is brought along to line up with the track for landing and then to circularize the orbit when being slingshotted back into orbit. Such a maglev launch system could also do point to point long distance trips around Luna to other bases as gravity is low enough and there is no atmosphere. This fairly straight forward mission profile to Luna that nuclear thermal would allow with a relative handful of tanker Starship launches per main payload launch from Earth would allow for a potentially large base on Luna or even multiple bases.

[@1977Yakko]

Cheaper unmanned missions or manned missions? Manned. We're explorers at heart I believe.

[@tsilb]

++ No robot will ever tell us what it feels like there, nor feel the inspiration to take the "Pale Blue Dot" and "Earthrise" photos.

[@vovical]

We need both. Unmanned for the first steps and reconnaissance or for places that are simply too unrealistic to currently reach with humans.

[@1977Yakko]

@@vovical Unmanned certainly has its uses. I agree with your example. I just don't want it to replace human exploration entirely where it's feasible. Obviously we're limited by our technology. Going to Mars is about the extreme limit of our capabilities and even that might be a tragic one way trip if something goes wrong. Until we have a massive advance in propulsion technology then we're not leaving the inner planets any time soon let alone exploring the whole solar system and beyond. Maybe if we get to something semi-practical like the sci-fi show and book series, The Expanse, which seems fairly grounded in realistic physics and not Star Trek or Star Wars techno-babble and space magic. .

[@driftability]

We need both

[@cokeforever]

unmanned only; we're just here to evolve into next phase of evolution: not bound by body, pure thought with no constrictions of space nor time

[@FlyWithMe_666]

I really hope they can find proof that the moon really exists.

[@Alb-Patriot]

It's cheese man , how many more times needs to be said

[@illustriouschin]

The sad part is that with the sensors on board the results can only be inconclusive at best.

[@relevantinformation6655]

🤣👍 . But where does it go in the daytime? 😂

[@terrypussypower]

@@relevantinformation6655 I can see the moon in the daytime. That’s because I live on the moon.

[@madzangels]

i'm not entirely convinced of this 'moon' theory either - seems like a lot of pseudo mumbo jumbo 'science' talk to me

[@avejst]

Impressive video as always Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us👍😀

[@MrNas42]

Brilliant as always Paul!

[@theJellyjoker]

"not point one percent" "not point five meters" It could be anything!

[@theJellyjoker]

@MichaelKingsfordGray All right, don't get your panties in a naught.

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@@theJellyjoker knots, please!

[@theJellyjoker]

@@user-vo8io9zk4g How could I-naut?

[@aemrt5745]

This conversation has become knotted, but thankfully is not naughty, but perhaps is a tad nutty!

[@Renagade5150]

Great content as usual CD! Keep up the good work. As for whether or not people should replace semi-autonomous probes the answer would be absolutely! There is simply no substitute for the amount of work a human can get done in any given time frame compared to a robot. I have even heard the individuals who BUILT the probes and rovers comment on how much more a human could accomplish. Space is for the human race. We need it, and it needs us. It is quite simply our destiny!

[@Rbrt92]

finally some space related content! not to say that I don't enjoy your other uploads, but the space ones are the best :)

[@bradleyokane]

Superb content as always, still trying to convince my Granddad whos in his 60s that men have walked on the moon this will help a ton haha. Thank you for you continued quality videos and presentation, I rewatch alot of your videos as they are brilliant

[@EarlHare]

5:08 Where you care really is when you forget where you parked.

[@jr8870]

Photos of landing sites, and idiots still say we were never there!!!

[@RedLP5000S]

I learn something new with every video. Thank you!

[@kberry3065]

As always. Good information. Thanks.

[@flexable9256]

10:20 - Naaaa, that was just Saitama :)

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Hagemantou*!

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Goddamn this is a good video. Had me grinning the entire time.

[@BuildingCenter]

Another under-lauded workhorse mission. There are so many of these that CD could a three-year monthly series, easily. Great video, as usual.

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[@stmichaelsjunction]

Brilliant I know the moon landings were real xx I was 8 years old in 69

[@bdazzler1]

So if there are consistent meteor strikes on the moon (and they look sizeable in some cases), how feasible (safe?) is it to set up a base there and how would you protect against a strike on the base?

[@QueenetBowie]

Was wondering the same thing

[@wtfbros5110]

*anti meteor lasers*

[@revidual]

Knowing the sites of strikes allows knowledge of the least hit areas.

[@ann_onn]

*@bdazzler1* There are consistent meteor strikes on the Earth too, but we manage, eh?

[@bdazzler1]

@@ann_onn difference being there is no real atmosphere there to slow them down or burn them up unlike on earth ( nightmare to detect them inbound also). So taking a breeze block sized meteor between the eyes on a lunar base which is manned or has chemical production ongoing is likely to mean complete destruction of the base in a space vacuum. Obviously better to protect in advance rather than rebuild.

[@TheFlashSpeedforce]

Thanks a lot. As with all your preeceding video-presentations, once more you were impeccable.

[@hans85]

I love your video's! Very interesting and in depth information

[@surviver5738]

Flat earthers and moon landing deniers need to grow up

[@jpaulc441]

That's what I hate the most about them. They seem to be deeply unpleasant people all with the same disgusting, childish attitude. I just don't believe it's possible to be a flat earther or moon hoax proponent and be a decent human being. I haven't met many of them in the real world but the few I have encountered behave exactly how I expected them to be.

[@jzk3919]

It is a flat cheese in case of the Moon. Swiss cheese-hole makers practice on it.🌒⚡🧀

[@MrBarrynicholas]

@@jpaulc441 You’d sooner believe an organisation that has made billions from telling lies. It has all been faked because they never had the technology to go to the moon. You don’t have to wear a tin foil hat when seeking the truth.

[@TheChico868]

@@MrBarrynicholas All those Apollo missions along with the USSR hiding the truth too. U really believe that shit? USSR had the most to gain proving it was fake.

[@MrBarrynicholas]

@@TheChico868 Russia went through two years of crop failure at this time (some say the CIA contaminated it) So to keep Russia from spilling the beans on the Apollo Mission, America supplied them with grain.

[@guillermoelnino]

i wish i was optimistic enough to think humanity will invest enough into space to be able to colonize it.

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Great video. Loved the detail on all the sites

[@BenJ2827]

I love this channel -brilliant content!

[@ijustpostedth1s724]

73 people still think Kubrick filmed the Mun landing in a Burbank Studio.

[@robertpearson8798]

False. Kubrick was such a perfectionist that he insisted it be filmed on location.😉

[@arbCannons3395]

I hope during my lifetime I will be able to look up and see man made light coming off the moon

[@Max50ww]

That would be cool.

[@janettesessions]

You are a dope! They can't keep the lights on here!!

[@garry1214]

Very interesting, I truly enjoyed this.

[@ChristopherMcGivern1]

Another excellent video. Thank you

[@Cheka__]

Moon landing hoaxers: "These pictures are fake."

[@markfryer9880]

They will come out with any excuse to not believe that the Moon Landings happened.

[@khaccanhle1930]

The cool thing about denying the moon landings is you get to feel like a genius by rejecting all evidence, despite having no evidence of your own. Pseudo intellectual.

[@francessimmonds5784]

Landing near Apollo 11 wouldn't prove naysayers wrong, they'd just claim it was a film set again.

[@adamsadventures9919]

Excellent video...really enjoyed it. Thank you.

[@donhaschi]

Excellent content, as usual 👍🏻

[@mike8631]

"But the resolution was low" Shows a picture of a literal potatoe.......

[@phileas007]

dark side of a potato

[@khaccanhle1930]

"The moon landing were faked, show me some photos of the landings." Here are the photos. (pause) "Umm, The photos were faked." Any assertion which can't be falsifiable, is irrational.

[@AsifKhan-nv1op]

Show me Neil n Buz there. 😁

[@robert48044]

how is it were led to believe they can read lic plates from space but couldn't image the lander until now? I'm not denying I'm asking a question.

[@corwinchristensen260]

@@robert48044 It's simply the extreme distance involved. Per your example, let's say that a satellite can see a 1 foot plate from 300 miles away (lots of assumptions here). That same camera turned toward the moon which is 230,000 miles away can only see an object roughly 766 feet across. Obviously a LM decent stage that is only 13 feet in diameter would most likely not be visible at all.

[@robert48044]

@@corwinchristensen260 Seems like it should be a goal for anyone wanting to make cameras. Distance and limitations of tech being problems I'm not forgetting about. Would it require a lens the size of the telescope in Puerto Rico that just fell apart or is it a matter of physics, you can only see so far? I'm also keeping in mind that no Gov is gonna want to admit the distance and detail of their cameras, since they can be used for spying like nations don't like to admit anything about their radars effective distance.

[@Bruce-vq7ni]

@@robert48044 That was just a myth - Nobody has ever read a licence plate from space.

[@andrewstamps2806]

Thankyou for yet another wonderful video.....you should have your own science program on TV as its all very interesting indeed 😊🌈 thankyou Andrew

[@kevinm9]

Amazing video. Thank you