Moon - Nearside Sun taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera

taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys

The total exposure time was 14 minutes

5150 kilometers across) and the Saturn-facing side of Tethys (660 miles

313 miles across) at right of Saturn

While climbing the Red Planet's Mt

Moon - Nearside Sun taken with Hubble’s Advanced CameraFor two weeks in mid December 2010, the LRO spacecraft remained nadir looking (straight down) so that the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) could acquire ~1300 images, allowing the LROC team to construct this spectacular mosaic. As the Moon rotated under LRO's orbit, the ground track progressed from east to west (right to left in this mosaic), and the incidence angle at the equator increased from 69 to 82 (at noontime the incidence angle is 0). NASA's