Danuri: Korea's first lunar orbiter Options

[threadworm]

They have now added several more month's worth of LUTI and Shadowcam images.

As they seem to be pretty good at labelling the instrument target, the best method I've found of interrogating the LUTI files is to get a mass downloader extension (simple mass downloader works well) and grab all the .xml files for a given month. Once you have them you can then use Windows Explorer to search inside the files for (eg) Apollo. It's worth checking both A and B versions of the images.

Often the target label might be near and not actually show it, but it does at least reduce the amount of downloading you need to do. If they've got round to actually calibrating the raw images, the xml will show the lat/long of the observation.

So far LUTI has images of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15 and 17. South Ray crater is captured nicelty at Apollo 16's site, but just misses the lunar module.

Shadowcam has Apollo 14, 15 and 16. They have shadowcam observation of Apollo 11 and 12, but there is insufficient ground disturbance there for them to register in the images.

[Phil Stooke]

It's interesting to get into these images! This LPSC abstract is a look at the LCROSS impact in Cabeus:

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1913.pdf

Here is a Shadowcam look at a 700 m diameter crater near the LCROSS impact site.



The Shepherding Satellite (which monitored the LCROSS Centaur impact) is supposed to have struck the surface just outside this crater at about the 2:00 position outside its rim, roughly where there is a small bright spot on the rim of another crater.

Phil