NASA Goddard Brings the Moon to Earth This winter the television
production team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md. shrank the moon down to a six-foot globe and put
it on display in their Visitor Center. They’ve made a new, fully
spherical short film called “Return to the Moon”. Designed
expressly for the Science On a Sphere platform, it opens in
science museums and elsewhere around the country on February 27.
"Return to the Moon" takes imagery and data sets from the
Apollo, Clementine, and other missions and projects them on a
six-foot sphere. The results give the startling impression of
the moon hanging magically in the center of darkened theaters.
During the five-minute film, viewers will witness NASA's legacy
of lunar exploration and come to understand the rationale for
the Agency's ambitious plans to return to the moon, beginning
with a robotic mission called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
or LRO. Both LRO and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing
Satellite, or LCROSS mission are