OVER THE MOON Maps show elevation data for the moon from a 2005 survey (left) compared with new data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (right). Goddard Space Flight Center Science Visualization Studio/NASA
After buzzing around the moon for two years, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has beamed more than 192 terabytes of data back to its home planet — more than all the printed information contained in the U.S.
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