LROC Thumbnail Browser

Within mere days or so, this new (experimental) page should look very much like (read: should be) some sort of handy supplement-guide to the LROC site's impressive Thumbnail Browser

In this new page, an amateur-scientist (me) want to try to explore (and to understand) the bulk of the LROC's "M" photographs, because they are the photographs which show parts of the moon. The "E" photographs show parts of Earth. The "C" photographs are those which show just nothing (or some sort of fuzz or noise) and are (I hope I'm right) the LROC-team's tools to calibrate the cameras and the digital system of the LRO (say: to see if everything is A.OK). A number of these "C" photographs show parts of the moon, which means they could be used as "appendix of lunar photography" (are they some sort of test photographs?).
And then there's also the "S" photographs, but... what are they? Could it be that these "S" photographs show traces of stars? (photographs of space).
Note: each one of the mentioned "M"-photographs has an ID of 9 or 10 numbers, for example "NAC M1895627038". In the guide below, only the first four numbers of an "M"-photograph's ID are shown. Now you could see in which one of the categories our specimen ("NAC M1895627038") is anchored...
And what about the two extensions "L" and "R" at most of the IDs? (seems they mean "left" and "right").
- DannyCaes Jun 26, 2016
(it's as if I'm some sort of Champollion, ready to decipher the lunar Rosetta stone, also known as the LROC Thumbnail Browser) (or... suppose I have never heard of LROC, read: very much as if it's something totally new to me and I want to try to understand the whole of it...).

1: Commissioning

NAC Orbital Lunar Photographs: (20004 images on 201 Pages, 100 items per page).
Page 2: M1010 (page 1 shows only "C" photographs).
Page 25: M1024
Page 50: M1032
Page 75: M1040/ 1041
Page 100: M1049
Page 125: M1056/ 1057
Page 150: M1063
Page 175: M1070
Page 200: M1076
WAC Orbital Lunar Photographs: (14288 images on 143 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 1: M1010
Page 71: M1050
Page 143: M1076

2: Nominal Mission

NAC Orbital Lunar Photographs: (168799 images on 1688 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 4: M1076 (preceding pages 1 to 3 show only "C" photographs, page 4 shows all three categories: "C", "E", and "M" photographs).
Page 211: M1121
Page 422: M1159
Page 633: M1190
Page 844: M1236
Page 1055: M1274/ 1275
Page 1266: M1311
Page 1477: M1352
Page 1688: M1392
WAC Orbital Lunar Photographs: (88213 images on 883 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 1: M1076/ 1077
Page 441: M1240/ 1241
Page 883: M1392

3: Science Mission

NAC Orbital Photographs: (433777 images on 4338 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 78: M1094 (preceding pages 1 to 75 show only "C" photographs, page 76 shows "C" and "E" photographs, page 77 shows only "E" photographs (lots of "flat earths"), and page 78 shows "E" and "M" photographs).
Page 500: M1100
Page 1000: M1462/ 1463
Page 1500: M1536
Page 2000: M1615
Page 2500: M1677
Page 3000: M1748
Page 3500: M1816
Page 4000: M1895
Page 4338: M1944
WAC Orbital Photographs: (170575 images on 1706 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 22: M1094
Page 200: M1100/ 1101
Page 400: M1450
Page 600: M1549
Page 800: M1612
Page 1000: M1700/ 1701
Page 1200: M1763
Page 1400: M1844
Page 1600: M1900/ 1901
Page 1706: M1944

4: Extended Science Mission

NAC Orbital Photographs: (407164 images on 4072 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 15: M1102 (pages 1 to 9 show only "C" photographs full of noise, until page 10 which also shows a couple of odd photographs of an area somewhere at the lunar terminator: C1110636045L and C1110636045R) (pages 11 to 13 show just "C noise", until page 14 which also shows a couple of "normal" lunar photographs: C1121735230L and C1121735230R) (page 15 shows all three categories: the "C", the "E", and the "M" photographs, note the odd appearance of the "flat earth" on the "E" photographs!).
Page 500: M1109
Page 1000: M1117
Page 1500: M1125
Page 2000: M1133
Page 2500: M1141
Page 3000: M1148
Page 3500: M1156
Page 4000: M1164
Page 4072: M1165
WAC Orbital Photographs: (149493 images on 1495 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 4: M1102
Page 200: M1108
Page 400: M1117
Page 600: M1125
Page 800: M1133
Page 1000: M1141
Page 1200: M1152
Page 1400: M1161
Page 1495: M1165

5: Second Extended Science Mission

NAC Orbital Photographs: (285971 images on 2860 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 1: M1165
Page 500: M1173
Page 1000: M1181
Page 1500: M1188
Page 2000: M1197
Page 2500: M1206
Page 2860: M1212
WAC Orbital Photographs: (114168 images on 1142 pages, 100 items per page).
Page 1: M1165
Page 200: M1174
Page 400: M1181
Page 600: M1191
Page 800: M1199
Page 1000: M1207
Page 1142: M1212

WARNING: this is not all!

What you see above is just the start of something MUCH more fine-tuned! How this page will look like within a couple of weeks or months is (even for me) a big question. I'm only at the threshold of a grand exploration!
- DannyCaes Jun 24, 2016