NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Or-biter (LRO) has created the most detailed view yet of the far side of the Moon. The photo, which was released along with a flood of other data from the spacecraft in mid-March, is actually a mosaic of thousands of different lunar far side images taken by the LRO's Wide Angle Camera. The new picture provides the most complete look at the history and composition of the Moon's far side to date, and should serve as a valuable resource for the scientific community, researchers said.
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