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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

September 15, 2022. LRO Release 51 includes new LEND, Diviner, and LOLA data.

Aug. 26, 2022. The first seasonal Diviner Polar Cumulative Products (PCPs) have been posted, and the diurnal Diviner PCPs have been converted to PDS4.

The release of Diviner RDR products has been delayed in order to correct a data processing error recently discovered. See errata.txt on the Diviner RDR volume for details.

Search Tools

The Lunar Orbital Data Explorer (ODE) at the Geosciences Node provides search capabilities for all LRO data sets.
The Planetary Image Atlas at the Imaging Node provides search capabilities for LAMP and LROC data.
The standard PDS Data Set Search tool includes all LRO data sets.

Instruments and Archives

Instrument Follow links to instrument team web sites	PDS Archives
CRaTER (Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation)	CRaTER Archive at the PPI Node
Diviner (Lunar Radiometer Experiment)	Diviner Archive
LAMP (Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project)	LAMP Archive at the Imaging Node
LEND (Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector)	LEND Archive
LOLA (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter)	LOLA Archive
LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera)	LROC Archive at the LROC Data Node
Mini-RF (Miniature Radio Frequency Technology Demonstration)	Mini-RF Archive
Radio Science	Radio Science Archive
SPICE (Geometry and Navigation Data -- see note below)	SPICE Archive at the NAIF Node

More Information

The LRO Data Management and Archive Plan, revised May 6, 2013 (PDF, 692 KB)
The LRO Mission Description from the PDS Catalog (ASCII, 28 KB)
The LRO Spacecraft Description from the PDS Catalog (ASCII, 37 KB)
The LRO web site at GSFC.

Note about LRO Ephemeris Data

There are two sources of LRO ephemeris data (SPICE SPK kernels). SPK data from the LRO Flight Dynamics Team (FDT) are available from the PDS Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF). The FDT SPK data are currently produced without using LRO Lunar Orbiting Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data.

LRO SPK data produced by the LOLA team are available from the Radio Science Data Archive at the LOLA Data Node in the DATA/SPK directory.

The LOLA SPK files are orbit reconstructions produced by the LOLA Precise Orbit Determination Team. These SPKs are used for geolocation of LOLA data. They contain spacecraft ephemerides and have the same binary format as SPK files provided by NAIF. More information about the content of the LOLA SPK data may be found in the “GEODYN Trajectory Files (SPK Directory)” information in the “Secondary Data” section of the Radio Science Data Set catalog file.

Release Schedule

Most LRO instrument teams release data every three months; LROC releases data monthly. The data acqusition periods shown below are nominal, as some teams release more recently acquired data. See release notes for each data set.

Use the PDS Subscription Service to receive email announcements of each LRO release.

Release	Data Acquisition (nominal)	Release to Public
53	9/15/22 - 12/14/22	3/15/23
53C	11/16/22 - 12/15/22 (LROC)	3/15/23
53B	10/16/22 - 11/15/22 (LROC)	2/15/23
53A	9/16/22 - 10/15/22 (LROC)	1/15/23

52	6/15/22 - 9/14/22	12/15/22
52C	8/16/22 - 9/15/22 (LROC)	12/15/22
52B	7/16/22 - 8/15/22 (LROC)	11/15/22
52A	6/16/22 - 7/15/22 (LROC)	10/15/22

51	3/15/22 - 6/14/22	9/15/22
51C	5/16/22 - 6/15/22 (LROC)	9/15/22
51B	4/16/22 - 5/15/22 (LROC)	8/15/22
51A	3/16/22 - 4/15/22 (LROC)	7/15/22

50	12/15/21 - 3/14/22	6/15/22
50C	2/16/22 - 3/15/22 (LROC)	6/15/22
50B	1/16/22 - 2/15/22 (LROC)	5/13/22
50A	12/16/21 - 1/15/22 (LROC)	4/15/22

49	9/15/21 - 12/14/21	3/15/22
49C	11/16/21 - 12/15/21 (LROC)	3/15/22
49B	10/16/21 - 11/15/21 (LROC)	2/15/22
49A	9/16/21 - 10/15/21 (LROC)	1/14/22

48	6/15/21 - 9/14/21	12/15/21
47	3/15/21 - 6/14/21	9/15/21
46	12/15/20 - 3/14/21	6/15/21
45	9/15/20 - 12/14/20	3/15/21
...	...	...
1	9/15/09 - 12/14/09	3/15/10

What's New

Sep. 15, 2022. Release 51 of LRO data is now online.

Aug. 26, 2022. The first seasonal Diviner PCPs have been posted, and the diurnal Diviner PCPs have been converted to PDS4.

Jun. 15, 2022. Release 50 of LRO data is now online.

May 5, 2022. The first Diviner RCP is released.

Mar. 15, 2022. Release 49 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 15, 2021. Release 48 of LRO data is now online.

Sep. 15, 2021. Release 47 of LRO data is now online.

Jun. 15, 2021. Release 46 of LRO data is now online.

Mar. 15, 2021. Release 45 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 15, 2020. Release 44 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 15, 2020. Release 43 of LRO data is now online.

Jul. 15, 2020. Diviner PCPs are released.

Jun. 15, 2020. Release 42 of LRO data is now online.

April 22, 2020. 36 Diviner GDR data products have been revised.

Mar. 13, 2020. Release 41 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 13, 2019. Release 40 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 20, 2019. LOLA data for Release 39 are now available.

Sept. 13, 2019. Release 39 of LRO data is now online.

Jul. 12, 2019. Four missing RS SPK products have been restored.

Jun. 25, 2019. LOLA data for Release 38 are now online.

Jun. 14, 2019. Release 38 of LRO data is now online.

June 5, 2019. Four LOLA GDR images have been revised.

Mar. 15, 2019. Release 37 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 13, 2018. Release 36 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 14, 2018. Release 35 of LRO data is now online.

Jun. 14, 2018. Release 34 of LRO data is now online.

Mar. 15, 2018. Release 33 of LRO data is now online.

Feb. 23, 2018. The LOLA RADR (radiometry) data set has been revised.

Dec. 18, 2017. A few LOLA gridded products have been corrected.

Dec. 13, 2017. Release 32 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 15, 2017. Release 31 of LRO data is now online.

Jul. 13, 2017. The LOLA GDR south polar map products from Release 30 have been redelivered.

Jun. 14, 2017. Release 30 of LRO data is now online.

Apr. 14, 2017. New Diviner GCPs have been released.

Mar. 14, 2017. Release 29 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 14, 2016. Release 28 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 13, 2016. Release 27 of LRO data is now online.

Jun. 14, 2016. Release 26 of LRO data is now online.

Apr. 14, 2016. Diviner Level-3 GDRs have been revised.

Mar. 31, 2016. LOLA RADR products have been revised.

Mar. 15, 2016. All LEND RDR DLD products have been revised.

Mar. 14, 2016. Release 25 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 15, 2015. Release 24 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 14, 2015. Release 23 of LRO data is now online.

Jun. 12, 2015. Release 22 of LRO data is now online.

Mar. 13, 2015. Release 21 of LRO data is now online.

Dec. 15, 2014. Release 20 of LRO data is now online.

Sept. 26, 2014. New Mini-RF Bistatic Radar data are online.

Sept. 23, 2014. A new Mini-RF Global Mosaic data set is online.

Sept. 15, 2014. Release 19 of LRO data is now online.

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