The Biggest Moon Discoveries of the Last Decade

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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been teaching us about the moon for a decade now, and it's still going! What we’re learning from it will make space exploration and future moon missions much easier for future astronauts.

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Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/overview/index.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lro-lcross-impact.html
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/content/-/article/lro2
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/815/nasas-moon-data-sheds-light-on-earths-asteroid-impact-history/
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/feature/lunar-polar-ice-reveals-tilting-axis-of-earth-s-moon/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/10-89AR.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/lro-sheds-light-on-lunar-water-movement
https://earthsky.org/space/moons-tilt-has-changed-over-time
https://www.space.com/32354-moon-polar-shift-water-ice.html
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/360020main_LRO_LCROSS_presskit2.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/overview/index.html

Images:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010200/a010269/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3443
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Lunar_Sample_60015.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LCROSS_Centaur.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LCROSS_Centaur_Impact_Flash.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11756
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10599
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10930
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/LROMoonImages_archive_1.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2971
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/933/true-colors-of-pluto/?category=planets/dwarf-planets_pluto