[sten]

these are the best pics they could get? without any atmosphere to interfere with the clarity of the pictures?

i get better pics of my house on google

256 meters wide... 1025 pixels... so the res is about 1 pixel for every 9x9 inch square on the moon.

meanwhile, a rough guess on the res used on google maps put it around 1 pixel for every 5x5 inch square (using parking lot markers for distance estimation)

i’m betting they have MUCH better images than this.

[5thGenTexan]

These are pictures from high altitude passes as the LRO settles into final orbit. Lower passes will come later. From the article:

Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.