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Rough territory but its a neat pic.

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And more detail of that boulder, from LRO overflights captured at nadir rather than oblique:

If LRO ends up being the only surviving part of the Vision for Space Exploration, it will have been a noble one.

Nothing has stayed in lunar orbit for so long a time, and long ago the sheer amount of data returned from the mission surpassed that of all deep space missions combined.

At this hour, LRO is traveling through its 16,129th orbit orbit around the Moon.