New Temperature Maps Provide a 'Whole New Way of Seeing the Moon'

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, is making the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface.Diviner has obtained enough data already to characterize many aspects of the moon's current thermal environment. So far, the