NASAさんのインスタグラム写真 - (NASAInstagram)「When @NASAArtemis once again puts human footprints on the Moon, the maps that guide them will be informed by data from our LRO mission. Now, those maps bear a new name, in honor of the Goddard project manager who ushered LRO to flight in 2009. "When you look at where would you like to go and stay for awhile on the Moon, you begin to realize that probably the poles are the most interesting place," Tooley said shortly before LRO's launch. Artemis' destination will be near the lunar South Pole, and there, nestled in the shadows will be Tooley crater. Tooley passed away in 2017 from pancreatic cancer. LRO and a host of other successful, major NASA missions are his legacy. "I always knew working in the space program was what I wanted to do as a career. … I remember watching a Gemini launch on television when I was, I think, 5 years old. However, there was a landing a few years later when I was 8 years old that was even more memorable and influential — the night of the first Moon landing," Tooley once said. "The exploration and the understanding that will follow when we move off and move out into the solar system, that is exciting," he said. "If you ask the people on my team what motivates them to work so very hard, and to work so hard when things get very hard … they’ll recount some version of: 'This is what this is about. This is very important to me personally. This is very important. My children or my children’s children will potentially be looking back at an Earthrise because of the efforts that I put forward.'" "I’m extremely proud of the people that made this happen." Image 1: Tooley crater is about 4.3 miles wide. It is located inside a permanently shadowed region of Shoemaker crater close to the lunar South Pole, making it one of the colder areas of the Moon. The image is a mosaic of images from the LRO LROC Narrow Angle Camera in a high gain mode that relies on the reflected light from nearby crater rims. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Image 2: Craig Tooley. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center」1月27日 4時19分