• LROC Wide Angle Camera
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    LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC)
    The WAC obtains images of nearly the entire Moon in seven wavelengths and in stereo each month. The WAC displayed here was originally mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter before being replaced with a spare with a better color filter set. With the larger baffle, the WAC captures images in five visible light bands and two ultraviolet light bands. Visible-light image pixels cover 100 meters (330 feet). Ultraviolet image pixels cover 400 meters (1,300 feet).

    Builder: Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego
    Lent by NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

  • LROC Wide Angle Camera

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Eric Long

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NASM2016-00449

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