New images of the lunar surface

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back its first photos of the moon. The photo above was taken near the moon's Mare Nubium region. The man in the moon is just outside the frame. From NASA:

Older craters have softened edges, while younger craters appear crisp. (The image) shows a region 1,400 meters (0.87 miles) wide, and features as small as 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide can be discerned. The bottom (faces) lunar north.

LRO's First Moon Images

[#1 posted by hokano, July 3, 2009 1:15 PM]

When do we get to see how Tranquility Base is holding up at 40?

[#2 posted by jjasper, July 3, 2009 1:21 PM]

If you look closely, you can see the gaffer tape to the left of this sound stage :-)

[#3 posted by Takuan, July 3, 2009 1:22 PM]

and Heinlein wrote The Black Pits of Luna in 1948.

[#4 posted by Sork, July 3, 2009 1:24 PM]

Is that cheese?

[#5 posted by Roy Trumbull, July 3, 2009 1:27 PM]

It wasn't my idea. I think it might have been Lord Buckley's In any event I bought a large mosaic image of the moon from the Sup of Docs and added little stick pins with tags on them:
Coming soon to this site McDonalds
New housing tract to be built here
Shopping center to open here
You get the idea. It was fun when I was 17.

[#6 posted by Anonymous, July 3, 2009 7:59 PM]

Looks like a shot from Eraserhead to me.

[#7 posted by InsertFingerHere, July 3, 2009 8:12 PM]

I want them to find something insane, like B-52 bombers or Aztec pyramids.

[#8 posted by Telecustard, July 3, 2009 10:32 PM]

What softens the edges of the older craters? Micrometeorites?

[#9 posted by Marchhare, July 3, 2009 11:13 PM]

My question is that of Telecustard.

[#10 posted by jfrancis, July 4, 2009 12:43 AM]

These Japanese Kaguya orbiter HD videos are cool

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DA9C6AA8E11F7E56&search_query=kaguya