The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at the Goddard Space Flight Center has released an outstanding video detailing the lunar surface like never seen before. The LRO team released the video in celebration of the orbiter’s 1000^th day around the Moon. The LRO’s mission is to study and complete an extremely detailed atlas of the Moon’s features and resources necessary to construct a lunar outpost.

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) released an amazing image of an infrared view of the night sky encompassing more than a half-billion stars, galaxies, and other celestial objects on March 14^th, 2012.  WISE principal investigator, Edward Wright from the University of California at Los Angeles said, “Today, WISE delivers the fruit of 14 years of effort to the astronomical community.” 
The WISE program was launched on December 14^th, 2009 with the objective of cataloging the entire night sky in the infrared wavelength.  Numerous discoveries have been made from the program, including the “Trojan” asteroid found to share the same path around the Sun as our Earth.