The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. The LRO objectives are to finding safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. The spacecraft will be placed in low polar orbit (50 km) for a 1-year mission. LRO will return global data, such as day- night temperature maps, a global geodetic grid, high resolution color imaging and the moon's UV albedo.

LAMP (Lyman Alpha Mapping Project) is an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph instrument on LRO. Its objectives focus on mapping the moon's UV albedo to generally investigate the permanently shadowed regions at its poles and search for water ice on its surface there if it exists. LAMP will also assay the tenuous lunar atmosphere.

This website is mostly to be used by the LAMP science team, but the public is welcome to look at views of our latest data and our most up to date map products. Data is made publicly available through the Planetary Data System.