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LRO Explores the Apollo 11 Landing Site

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
Published: October 20, 2017

On November 5, 2011 the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) acquired a high resolution image of the Apollo 11 landing site.

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