Vote for Favorite Moon Images in NASA “Moon as Art” LRO Contest

In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, NASA has announced a competition to engage the public to help them select the cover image for a collection of “Moon As Art” images.

The collection of moon pictures was created using images taken by the LRO over its mission. NASA has narrowed the field to the top five images, and is now asking the public to decide which will be the cover of the “Moon as Art” collection.



“‘The Moon as Art’ collection gives the public the opportunity to see the moon as others have seen it for centuries – as an inspirational muse – but this time from the perspective of being in orbit with a series of ‘eyes’ that see in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum,” said Brooke Hsu, science education specialist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute/Universities Space Research Association in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The winning cover image will be announced June 18, the 5-year anniversary of the LRO mission, along with the release of the full “Moon as Art” collection of 24 images.

Voting opened on May 23 and will run through June 6. To cast your vote online, visit: http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/MoonArt and select from the top 5 images listed below.

The finalist images are titled:
— Starry Night
— Linne Crater
— Clerke Crater
— Diviner North Pole
— Tycho Central Peak

“LRO has been a remarkable mission with discoveries that have given us insight into solar system history and the inner workings of the moon,” said John Keller, LRO project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “After five years, LRO continues to make ground breaking discoveries.”

For more information on LRO, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/lro