JPL Instrument Set for NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission

NASA is scheduled to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire Moon, tomorrow, June 18. One of the instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, will make the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface while the orbiter circles some 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the Moon.“The terrain on the far side of the Moon