"NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Speeding Object Around the Moon"
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) as the two spacecraft passed each other in orbit around the Moon. The images show the elongated appearance of the KPLO due to their opposite directional paths and high travel velocities. The KPLO, launched by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, is conducting experiments to study the lunar environment and demonstrate a "lunar internet." This encounter is not the first time the two spacecraft have captured images of each other, and there are at least ten other objects currently known to be orbiting the Moon.