{"id":14301,"date":"2023-09-06T05:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14301"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:12:12","slug":"lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>NASA spacecraft\u00a0<\/strong>that was\u00a0<strong>launched on June 18, 2009.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Primary Objective:\u00a0<\/strong>To\u00a0<strong>make a 3D map of the Moon&#8217;s surface f<\/strong>rom lunar polar orbit.<\/li>\n<li>It has also been\u00a0<strong>used to study the Moon&#8217;s geology, mineralogy, and environment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>orbits the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>LRO is\u00a0<strong>equipped with 7 science instruments<\/strong>, the most well-known of which is a\u00a0<strong>195-millimeter (7.7-inch) telescope and camera system that can see details up to 2.5 meters across.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>LRO is\u00a0<strong>equipped with a laser altimeter that produces 3D maps by shooting lasers\u00a0<\/strong>at the surface and measuring reflection times.<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft\u00a0<strong>also carries two instruments suited to peering into dark craters to search for signs of water ice,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>and a temperature instrument\u00a0<\/strong>that led to the discovery of the coldest place in the solar system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an Altimeter?<\/h3>\n<p>An altimeter is a device used to measure altitude, which is the height or elevation above a specific reference point, usually the Earth&#8217;s surface or sea level. Altimeters are commonly used in aviation, mountaineering, and various other applications where knowing one&#8217;s vertical position is essential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-lro-chandrayaan-3-moon-lander-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India&#8217;s Chandrayaan-3 moon lander spotted from lunar orbit (photo)<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is a NASA spacecraft that was launched on June 18, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}