Interactive Map of Lunar North Pole

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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was launched in the summer of 2009. Over the next four years, it took over 10,500 high-resolution images of the Lunar North Pole. Though it isn’t the first time that region has been imaged, it is the first time it has been done at such a high resolution. In 2011, LROC released a different image of the same area of the moon, with each pixel covering 100 meters. This newly-released image has 50x the resolution!
Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-releases-681-gigapixel-interactive-map-lunar-north-pole#Vb7Ye4az8XUAmjVZ.99

Link to article:
http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-releases-681-gigapixel-interactive-map-lunar-north-pole

Direct link to the interactive map:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/gigapan/ (quite unstable at the moment).
 
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