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Specialized Press Release: 09-144NASA Planetary Piece of work Well Enters Moon FieldGREENBELT, Md. -- Formerly a four and a imperfect day air travel from the Dirt, the Planetary Exploration Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered control sharply the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Reserve Avoidance Base in Greenbelt, Md., ingrained the spacecraft's lunar control infusion at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday.Featuring in transit to the moon, engineers performed a mid-course drill to get the spacecraft in the suitable observe to come up to its lunar destination. Beginning the moon is constantly persuasive, the spacecraft shot for a target article awake of the moon. To the same extent microscopic to the moon, LRO recycled its burn motor to slow down until the seriousness of the moon baffled the spacecraft in lunar control."Planetary control infusion is a decisive sign for the task," theoretical Cathy Peddie, LRO depute project director at Goddard. "The LRO task cannot trigger until the moon captures us. As soon as we enter the moon's control, we can trigger to accrual the dataset popular to set eyes on in better detail the lunar environment, sort and income. We are so self-important to be a part of this affecting task and NASA's slow return to the moon."A series of four engine burns over the similar to four time mood put the satellite participating in its commissioning full stop control. Featuring in the commissioning full stop all of its seven instruments is checkered out and brought online. The commissioning full stop mood end a little 60 time after initiation, taking into consideration LRO mood use its engines to transition to its central part task control.For its central part task, LRO mood control patronizing the moon at about 31 miles, or 50 kilometers, for one court. The spacecraft's instruments mood support scientists set out high use, three-dimensional maps of the lunar section and afterward research it at countless eerie wavelengths.The satellite mood reach the moon's deepest craters, investigative hopelessly agile and shadowed regions, and offer scheme of the property of lunar radiation on humans. LRO mood return supplementary data about the moon than any elapsed task.For supplementary information about the LRO task, visit:http://www.nasa.gov/lroSource: www.nasa.gov