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[music] Noah Petro: My name is Noah Petro--I'm a Research Scientist

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here at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and I'm also on the LRO Project Science Team.

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We have some of the most stunning images of the lunar surface that I've ever seen--

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these are pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14,

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and Apollo 12 landing sites, giving us the clearest view

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of where the astronauts went, where they sampled, where they conducted scientific experiments

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on the lunar surface. So these are images that were taken by an instrument

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called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera--it's an instrument on the LRO mission

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and when I first took a look at these images, you know, my jaw dropped to the ground.

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When you see something that you've never seen before, and in a quality

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that you've never seen before--it really just made me speechless.

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For example, at the Apollo 17 landing site, we can see where

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the lunar rover is parked on the surface. We can see where it drove around around the

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lunar module, you can see the areas where the astronauts kicked up the dust when they walked

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around. You can see some of the experiments that were left behind sitting on the surface

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40 years ago, and you can see where they are, still sitting there, on the lunar surface.

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These are some of the most amazing images

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of the moon that I've ever seen because they really put into, sort of, a really

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cool context of what was done back during Apollo.