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1原文： After a year circling the moon with a diverse array of instruments, LRO has revealed detailed images far different from the ones Brown University geology professor Jim Head used when he worked in the Apollo program, which sent the first men to the moon in 1968. Brown says the lunar maps back then were based on images with lower resolution and limited viewing angles, which meant that deciding where astronauts could land involved a fair amount of guesswork. But what we have here with the LOLA instrument is in fact the ability to create topographic maps that actually look like images. So we have over 2,500,000,000 shots of laser data which weve combined together to create these global topographic maps and they give us an even portrayal of the topography, largely composed of impact craters over the whole surface of the moon. 翻译： 携带着各式仪器环绕月球飞行一年之后，月球勘测轨道器向我们展现了新的月面细节图。这些图片同布朗大学地质学教授吉姆?海德当年参与阿波罗项目时所使用的图片截然不同， 而 1968年该项目首次实现载人登月。 布朗说，当时的月面地图是基于低分辨率和有限的拍摄角度所得到的图像来绘制的，这也就意味着确定宇航员着陆点的过程中还包含着一部分猜测。 “不过我们还有月球卫星激光测高仪，可以绘制出逼真的地质图。我们把25亿多组激光数据组合起来，绘制了完整的月面地形图。新图更加细致地描绘了月球的地形地貌，我们能看见月球表面密布的陨石坑。 2原文： The LOLA instrument Head refers to - the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter - counted some 50,000 craters in one 20-kilometer area. Chief lunar scientist Mike Wargo says the new maps can pinpoint safe landing sites, but also provide details about, for example, how that landing site is lit by the sun. And by understanding the topography and the position of that topography with respect to the sun, we can identify those areas that have very nearly 100% continuous illumination so that we have the availability of long-term solar power available for a future robotic and human explorer. The new topographical data show a more complex moon than previously thought, one bombarded by 2 distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its turbulent early history. The record of those ancient bombardments, which also pummeled the young Earth, is preserved in the moons heavily cratered surface. 翻译： LOLA