Washington, May 14 : A new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date has been created by NASA.

The Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. has created an online set of capabilities and tools that will allow anyone with an Internet connection to search through, view, and analyze a vast number of lunar images and other digital products.

The project website is a one-stop location for finding, retrieving, and analyzing data about the Moon, including the most recent lunar surface imagery, altimetry, temperature, lighting and other data, as provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its seven

onboard instruments.

“By making these data widely available to the general public, NASA seeks to provide engineers, scientists, mission planners, educators and students with a new resource that will allow them to view and analyze a wide array of lunar images and other data products in a way not previously available to such a diverse group,” said Raymond French, integration lead for the Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project Office at Marshall.
(ANI)