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"Mysterious Surfboard-Shaped Object Spotted Orbiting Moon by NASA"

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of a surfboard-shaped object orbiting the moon, sparking comparisons to the fictional character Silver Surfer. However, the object is actually South Korea's Danuri Lunar Orbiter, not a UFO or Marvel creation. The images show the distorted object due to the high relative velocity between it and the LRO. The Danuri has been in lunar orbit since December 2022, while the LRO has been studying the moon for 15 years.

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"Mysterious Object Spotted Orbiting the Moon by NASA's LRO"

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri lunar orbiter as the two spacecraft crossed paths in opposite directions during three orbits between March 5 and 6, 2024. The perfectly timed photos show Danuri, the Republic of Korea's first moon-explorer, orbiting below the LRO, with relative velocities of about 7,200 miles per hour. The LRO's narrow angle camera exposure time caused Danuri to appear smeared and stretched in the images. This encounter isn't the first for the two spacecraft, as Danuri previously photographed LRO from a distance in April 2023.

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