Image Credit: NASA Description LRO stands for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It is a robotic spacecraft that is orbiting, or flying around, the moon. It is taking pictures and gathering information about the moon's surface. LRO launched in June 2009. LRO will help create maps of the entire lunar surface. It will search for ice and frost at the moon's poles. Water ice can be used for many things including rocket fuel. To search for water ice, the spacecraft will take pictures of shadowed areas of the moon that are lit only by starlight.

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