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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
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Description: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft at Goddard Space Flight Center
Photographer: DEBBIE McCALLUM
Date: 2/10/2009
Job Number: 2009-00368-3
Preservation Copy: .tif
2009
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2006 - 2011
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