LROC posts - Timeline

LROC posts - Timeline (with additional anniversary dates of the many impacts and landings of unmanned and manned lunar missions)

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[#x2008 2008]

[#x2009 2009]

[#x2010 2010]

[#x2011 2011]

[#x2012 2012]

[#x2013 2013]

[#x2014 2014]

[#x2015 2015]

[#x2016 2016]

[#x2017 2017]

[#x2018 2018]

Description

Here, in this page, many questions are asked, such as: When was the day the very first article was posted? When were the most articles posted? (was there a "boost"?). On the other hand, was there a hiatus? (a "void"). Was there more than one hiatus? Etcetera....WARNING: one could not depend on the numbers of the articles, because they say nothing about the days, months, and years when they were posted. The very first "cluster" of articles (NEWS-posts) seems to have been posted on March the 4th of the year 2009. Well, let's start with the month of March, 2009...
  By the way, to get much more information from this page, I decided to include the anniversaries of unmanned and manned landers (and impactors) on the lunar surface. The goal of this additional information is to show you the reality of the abundance of artificial human-made objects on the moon.
 - DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 3, 2018
 
 

Additional Information

• The LROC Notebook (the many posts from number 1 to number 900+). - DannyCaes DannyCaes May 22, 2016
• LROC Gallery 2009, LROC Gallery 2010, LROC Gallery 2011. - JohnMoore2 JohnMoore2

2008

December 2008 (40th anniversary of APOLLO 8, mankind's first manned mission to circumnavigate the moon).

2009

March 2009 (40th anniversary of the mission of APOLLO 9 in earth-orbit, to test the Lunar Module, LM Spider).
(IMAGES-post 139) (why "139" ?)
(NEWS-posts 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 77).
April 2009
(nothing...).
May 2009 (40th anniversary of the orbital lunar mission of APOLLO 10, to test the Lunar Module in orbit around the moon, LM Snoopy).
(IMAGES-posts 140, 113).
(NEWS-post 119).
June 2009 (launch of the LRO - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter).
(IMAGES-posts 346, 347, 145, 349, 137) ("346", "347", and "349" ??).
(NEWS-posts 127, 129, 138, 146, 147, 121, 116, 144, 136, 126, 134, 135).
July 2009 (40th anniversary of the landing of APOLLO 11's LM Eagle at the southwestern part of Mare Tranquillitatis) (mankind's first manned lunar landing) (40th anniversary of the impact of LUNA 15 at Mare Crisium).
(IMAGES-posts 124, 130, 128, 272, 122, 118, 114, 157, 92, 111, 206).
(NEWS-posts 133, 132, 131, 123, 120, 115, 112).
August 2009
(IMAGES-posts 41, 51, 109, 108, 105, 413, 96, 95, 102) ("413" ??).
(NEWS-posts 110, 106, 107, 81, 252).
September 2009 (50th anniversary of the impact of LUNA 2 at Palus Putredinis, mankind's first artificial object to reach the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 101, 141, 38, 100, 98, 97, 91, 279, 22, 13).
(NEWS-posts 93, 73, 99, 94, 42, 90).
October 2009 (50th anniversary of the circumlunar mission of LUNA 3, to take the very first photographs of the moon's farside) (impacts of both the LCROSS's Centaur booster and its shepherding spacecraft, at Cabeus).
(IMAGES-posts 24, 68, 83, 60, 86, 85, 80, 84, 82, 76, 79, 78, 74, 72, 71).
(NEWS-posts 89, 88, 87, 39).
November 2009 (40th anniversary of the landing of APOLLO 12's LM Intrepid, very near Surveyor 3 at the Surveyor crater).
(IMAGES-posts 70, 67, 69, 65, 64, 217, 179, 61).
(NEWS-posts 66, 63).
December 2009
(IMAGES-posts 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 40, 45, 46, 44).
(NEWS-post 54).

2010

January 2010
(IMAGES-posts 43, 37, 209, 34, 35, 33, 32, 31, 29).
(NEWS-posts 36, 30).
February 2010
(IMAGES-posts 28, 27, 26, 25, 4, 23, 21).
(NEWS-post 19).
March 2010
(IMAGES-posts 202, 18, 9, 11, 15, 14, 7, 364, 10, 8, 6, 5).
(NEWS-posts 20, 17, 16).
April 2010 (40th anniversary of the troublesome mission of APOLLO 13).
(IMAGES-posts 3, 1, 149, 142, 153, 155, 156, 450, 158, 161, 163, 167) (yes, article number 1 was posted in april 2010) (why not in march 2009?).
(NEWS-post 117).
May 2010
(IMAGES-posts 168, 174, 175, 176, 151, 177, 178, 326, 180, 181).
(NEWS-posts 170, 125).
June 2010
(IMAGES-posts 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 695, 189, 191, 192, 193) (and suddenly there's number 695 among those one-hundred-and-eighties...).
(NEWS-posts 188, 194, 195).
July 2010
(IMAGES-posts 321, 196, 199, 219, 200, 203, 218, 204, 205, 265, 207).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
August 2010
(IMAGES-posts 211, 210, 212, 213, 214, 220, 221, 224, 225).
(NEWS-posts 216, 222).
September 2010 (40th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 16 at Mare Fecunditatis).
(IMAGES-posts 226, 227, 228, 229, 223, 230, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240).
(NEWS-post 233).
October 2010
(IMAGES-posts 241, 242, 248, 243, 246, 244, 294, 249, 250, 255, 256).
(NEWS-post 247).
November 2010 (40th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 17 with LUNOKHOD 1; mankind's first wheels on the moon, south of Promontorium Heraclides).
(IMAGES-posts 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2010
(IMAGES-posts 269, 245, 251, 253, 201, 271).
(NEWS-post: 270).

2011

January 2011
(IMAGES-posts 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 280, 281).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2011 (40th anniversary of the landing of APOLLO 14's LM Antares north of Fra Mauro).
(IMAGES-posts 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
March 2011
(IMAGES-posts 299, 300, 232, 301, 310, 302, 303, 298, 305, 306, 308, 309, 312, 313, 315, 317).
(NEWS-posts 307, 316).
April 2011
(IMAGES-posts 278, 318, 319, 320, 322, 304, 314, 323, 324, 325, 327, 328, 330).
(NEWS-post 311).
May 2011
(IMAGES-posts 332, 337, 335, 333, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 345, 350, 351, 352, 406).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2011
(IMAGES-posts 331, 334, 148, 152, 154, 159, 162, 171, 169, 166, 361, 336, 384).
(NEWS-post 160).
July 2011 (40th anniversary of the landing of APOLLO 15's LM Falcon at the Hadley plain).
(IMAGES-posts 371, 358, 353, 383, 359, 373, 378, 172, 382, 367).
(NEWS-posts 370, 173).
August 2011
(IMAGES-posts 393, 399, 386, 366, 387, 398, 400, 381, 343, 395, 418, 357, 355, 394).
(NEWS-posts 376, 385).
September 2011 (40th anniversary of the impact of LUNA 18 at Mare Fecunditatis).
(IMAGES-posts 396, 379, 363, 409, 374, 407, 420, 412, 416, 391, 392, 410).
(NEWS-posts 389, 164).
October 2011
(IMAGES-posts 436, 425, 453, 390, 375, 408, 428, 344, 419, 449, 424, 430).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
November 2011
(IMAGES-posts 427, 422, 415, 362, 442, 446, 423, 444, 451, 438, 433, 441, 411, 443, 434, 431).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2011
(IMAGES-posts 348, 165, 377, 417, 448, 439, 426).
(NEWS-posts 356, 380).

2012

January 2012
(IMAGES-posts 457, 404, 459, 469, 460, 452, 474, 368, 369, 470, 477, 471).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2012 (40th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 20 at Mare Fecunditatis).
(IMAGES-posts 472, 465, 495, 497, 521, 458, 468, 485, 488, 440, 403, 475).
(NEWS-post 456).
March 2012
(IMAGES-posts 476, 518, 491, 401, 484, 496, 699, 402, 461, 480, 503, 478, 515, 437, 432).
(NEWS-post 360).
April 2012 (40th anniversary of the landing of APOLLO 16's LM Orion north of Descartes) (50th anniversary of the impact of RANGER 4 on the moon's farside).
(IMAGES-posts 500, 494, 479, 501, 510, 483, 512, 517, 486, 520).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
May 2012
(IMAGES-posts 509, 487, 508, 511, 493, 528, 504, 507, 514, 513, 502, 541, 143).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2012
(IMAGES-posts 365, 498, 372, 522, 550, 542, 544, 554, 529, 489, 530, 623, 675, 473).
(NEWS-post 414).
July 2012
(IMAGES-posts 540, 546, 557, 455, 598, 629, 656, 429, 454, 537, 657).
(NEWS-post 639).
August 2012
(IMAGES-posts 669, 676, 523, 329, 532, 562, 538, 553, 543, 549, 563).
(NEWS-post 568).
September 2012
(IMAGES-posts 586, 593, 584, 534, 571, 559, 561, 597, 577, 421, 585, 621, 611, 526, 545).
(NEWS-posts 445, 590).
October 2012
(IMAGES-posts 591, 583, 615, 594, 587, 602, 565, 533, 481, 567, 619, 576, 578, 588).
(NEWS-post 574).
November 2012
(IMAGES-posts 580, 551, 608, 536, 556, 625, 607, 620, 570).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2012 (40th anniversary of the landing of APOLLO 17's LM Challenger at the Taurus-Littrow Valley) (impacts of both GRAIL A -"Ebb" and GRAIL B -"Flood" on the moon's LQ01 quadrangle).
(IMAGES-posts 610, 595, 624, 658, 613, 605, 662, 573, 674, 579, 592, 558, 569).
(NEWS-posts 631, 490).

2013

January 2013 (40th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 21 with LUNOKHOD 2; mankind's second unmanned lunar rover, at Le Monnier).
(IMAGES-posts 572, 519, 640, 632, 612, 467, 582, 539, 603, 560, 552, 566, 527).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2013
(IMAGES-posts 462, 104, 652, 636, 618, 666, 677, 672, 678, 633, 388, 642).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
March 2013
(IMAGES-posts 626, 635, 627, 616, 547, 668, 601, 596, 531, 649, 644).
(NEWS-posts 581, 492).
April 2013
(IMAGES-posts 645, 641, 600, 397, 643, 686, 663, 701, 696, 708, 208, 648, 653).
(NEWS-post 638).
May 2013
(IMAGES-posts 665, 617, 524, 667, 689, 691, 525, 712, 700, 628, 682, 706, 688, 630, 705).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2013
(IMAGES-posts 647, 694, 659, 664, 680, 660, 661, 698, 703, 710, 711).
(NEWS-post 683).
July 2013
(IMAGES-posts 609, 671, 713, 707, 506, 604, 681).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
August 2013
(IMAGES-posts 716, 687, 719, 692, 704, 685, 655, 634).
(NEWS-posts 709, 715).
September 2013
(IMAGES-posts 555, 482, 466, 679, 575, 720, 650).
(NEWS-post 693).
October 2013
(IMAGES-posts 690, 726, 717, 730, 731, 733, 464, 354, 651).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
November 2013
(IMAGES-posts 702, 52, 728, 714, 447, 727, 718, 548) (quite unusual to see number 52 among those seven-hundreds!).
(NEWS-post 103).
December 2013 (the landing of CHANG'E 3 with YUTU, at Mare Imbrium).
(IMAGES-posts 723, 743, 761, 757, 759, 770, 724, 564, 499, 637).
(NEWS-post 599).

2014

January 2014
(IMAGES-posts 734, 750, 744, 752, 732, 739, 754, 736, 737).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2014 (50th anniversary of the impact of RANGER 6 at Mare Tranquillitatis).
(IMAGES-posts 746, 740, 622, 769, 756, 765, 463, 741).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
March 2014
(IMAGES-posts 751, 755, 747, 748, 738, 766, 767, 745, 684).
(NEWS-post 722).
April 2014 (impact of LADEE, LUNAR ATMOSPHERE AND DUST ENVIRONMENT EXPLORER, near Sundman V)
(IMAGES-posts 762, 758, 742, 772, 753, 516, 150, 763) (among those... number 150).
(NEWS-post 435).
May 2014
(IMAGES-posts 768, 764, 773, 760, 776, 775, 774, 771).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2014
(IMAGES-posts 777, 778, 779, 780, 782, 783, 785, 784).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
July 2014 (50th anniversary of the impact of RANGER 7 at Mare Cognitum).
(IMAGES-posts 789, 790, 788, 787, 794, 795, 793, 792, 797, 796).
(NEWS-post 781).
August 2014
(IMAGES-posts 791, 798, 800, 799, 803, 805, 802, 804).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
September 2014
(IMAGES-posts 806, 807, 810, 801, 815).
(NEWS-post 808).
October 2014
(IMAGES-posts 814, 811, 813, 818, 822).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
November 2014 (40th anniversary of the unsuccessful landing of LUNA 23 at Mare Crisium).
(IMAGES-posts 821, 820, 819).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2014
(IMAGES-post 823).
(NEWS-post 825).

2015

January 2015
(IMAGES-posts 828, 830, 831, 836).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2015 (50th anniversary of the impact of RANGER 8 at Mare Tranquillitatis).
(IMAGES-posts 833, 827, 843).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
March 2015 (50th anniversary of the impact of RANGER 9 at Alphonsus).
(IMAGES-post 853).
(NEWS-post: 860).
April 2015
(IMAGES-post 835).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
May 2015
(IMAGES-posts 856, 862, 829, 864).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2015
(IMAGES-posts 840, 861, 845, 855).
(NEWS post 865).
July 2015
(IMAGES-posts 854, 848, 837, 847).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
August 2015
(IMAGES-posts 874, 868, 873).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
September 2015
(IMAGES-posts 869, 839, 877, 867).
(NEWS-post 879).
October 2015 (50th anniversary of the impact of LUNA 7 at Oceanus Procellarum)
(IMAGES-posts 872, 852, 851, 870, 844).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
November 2015
(IMAGES-posts 841, 883, 893).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2015 (50th anniversary of the impact of LUNA 8 at Oceanus Procellarum)
(IMAGES-posts 894, 895).
(NEWS-post 896).

2016

January 2016
(IMAGES-posts 863, 887, 885).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2016 (50th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 9 at Planitia Descensus) (mankind's first soft-landing on the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 889, 871, 892, 898).
(NEWS-post 900).
March 2016
(IMAGES-posts 899, 882, 901).
(NEWS-post 903).
April 2016
Note: during this month, I decided to create an online list of the headings of the many posts (of both the articles and the news messages). A couple of days or weeks before this month (April 2016) I wrote these headings in a small trade-union notebook (15 cm x 10 cm). I still have this notebook (call it a museum-piece). Each one of the pages in this small notebook contains 35 headings. Post number 1000 is on page 29. During the month of March 2018 I decided to write all of these headings in a much larger hardcover-book (30 cm x 21 cm; call it a deluxe chique-looking edition of the previous trade-union notebook).- DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 2, 2018
(IMAGES-posts 866, 891, 817).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
May 2016
(IMAGES-posts 925, 928, 931, 929).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2016 (50th anniversary of the landing of SURVEYOR 1 at the Flamsteed P ring).
(IMAGES-posts 932, 927, 933, 935, 936).
(NEWS-post 934).
July 2016
(IMAGES-post 937).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
August 2016 (40th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 24 at Mare Crisium, last of the series of LUNA landers) (50th anniversary of LUNAR ORBITER 1's photographic work around the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 880, 939).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
September 2016 (50th anniversary of the crash-landing of SURVEYOR 2 near Copernicus).
(IMAGES-posts 909, 917, 941).
(NEWS-post 942).
October 2016
(IMAGES-posts 916, 943, 913).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
November 2016 (50th anniversary of LUNAR ORBITER 2's photographic work around the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 911, 938).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2016 (50th anniversary of the landing of LUNA 13 at Oceanus Procellarum).
(IMAGES-posts: 920, 919, 912).
(NEWS-post: 945).

2017

'January 2017
(IMAGES-posts 914, 908, 924).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2017 (50th anniversary of LUNAR ORBITER 3's photographic work around the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 890, 915, 910, 959).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
March 2017
(IMAGES-posts 948, 953, 950, 960, 921).
(NEWS-post: 970).
April 2017 ('during this month, the ACT-REACT QUICK MAP was temporarily unavailable) (50th anniversary of the landing of SURVEYOR 3 at the Surveyor crater, also the landingsite of APOLLO 12 in november 1969).
(IMAGES-posts 951, 972, 902).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
May 2017 (50th anniversary of LUNAR ORBITER 4's photographic work around the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 958, 973).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
June 2017
(IMAGES-posts 971, 963, 962).
(NEWS-post 976).
July 2017 (50th anniversary of the crash-landing of SURVEYOR 4 at Sinus Medii).
(IMAGES-posts 949, 978).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
August 2017 (50th anniversary of LUNAR ORBITER 5's photographic work around the moon).
(IMAGES-posts 964, 952, 980).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
September 2017 (50th anniversary of the landing of SURVEYOR 5 at Mare Tranquillitatis).
(IMAGES-post 957).
(NEWS-post 981).
October 2017 (during this month, the LROC-Quickmap underwent a major revamp) (the introduction of the rotateable and zoomable "3D" moonglobe, but... not everything in this major revamp seems available on screen...)

• Somewhere near the end of october the "old" LROC Act-React Quickmap was back online, see: http://bit.ly/1LOoG7j (this shortlink shows the well-known zoomable Equidistant Cylindrical WAC-Map with Hi-Res NAC close-ups).

(IMAGES-posts 984, 977, 975, 982).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
November 2017 (50th anniversary of the landing of SURVEYOR 6 at Sinus Medii, not far from the crash-site of SURVEYOR 4).
(IMAGES-posts 985, 988, 944).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
December 2017
(IMAGES-posts 986, 989).
(NEWS-post 990).

2018

January 2018 (50th anniversary of the landing of SURVEYOR 7 slightly north of Tycho).
(IMAGES-posts 992, 991, 947, 979, 1004) (articles 947 and 979 are posted on the same day: January the 26th) (the detection of surface formations at permanently shadowed regions near the moon's poles seems to be hot topic, see article 979).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
February 2018
Note: on the 12th of this month, it was announced that WIKISPACES and the MOON-WIKI project were very much like a sinking ship. The most stubborn contributors of the MOON-WIKI project didn't want to abandon this wonderful ship, because the exploration of the moon doesn't stop!!!
(IMAGES-posts 993, 1000).
(NEWS-posts: nothing).
March 2018
Note: during this month, I wrote all of the 900-and-more headings (of the articles and news messages) in a deluxe hardcover "notebook" (30 cm x 21 cm). The small trade-union notebook (15 cm x 10 cm) is history... (- DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 1, 2018)
(IMAGES-post 1002) (only one article this month?).
(NEWS-post 1006).
April 2018
(IMAGES-post 956).
Imagine me as one of the contributors in the LROC ARTICLES section...- DannyCaes DannyCaes Friday Each month an extra pile of unusual things most lunar enthusiasts never heard of...
(NEWS-posts: --- ).