(CNN) - Man is a step closer to return to the days after NASA launched a lunar orbiter Thursday comprehensive survey to our nearest celestial neighbor. Lunar Orbiter lifted off the investigation aboard an Atlas V Rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 5:32 ET, is supported by two liquid-fueled engine and a pair of solid-fueled given.
NASA described the liftoff as a "perfect" on the Web site.
This is the first mission in NASA's plan to return to days, then travel to Mars and beyond, said NASA. Data collected orbiter and send back to Earth will be used to build a lunar outpost finally, the word NASA. Orbiter will send back all of the data, from the day-night temperature maps for color images and UV reflection, the word NASA.
There is special emphasis on the field in May that continues to have access to sunlight and where there is water in May.
Because the building lunar outpost implies extended periods in the moon's surface, NASA orbiter is the hope to help identify safe landing sites and months, and how the lunar radiation environment will affect humans.
The orbiter's trip to weeks will take approximately four days. And he will spend at least one year in low polar orbit around the moon, the end of 50 kilometers (31 miles) above its surface, NASA said. Orbiter will have six instruments aboard, including the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of radiation - called crater - for the lunar radiation characteristics and potential biological impacts.
He will also have tools to do the mapping of heat and ultraviolet. Some instruments will search for surface ice and frost, and one will be able to search for water below the surface.
The Lunar Orbiter Laser altimeter will measure the slope of potential landing sites and the roughness of the moon's surface, and produce high-resolution 3-D map of weeks.
Although not quite as high as the orbiter technology and on-board instruments, the mission also has a twitter page to allow people in the world to monitor its progress - http://twitter.com/LRO--NASA. "The return to the Moon will enable the scientific pursuit of that address our fundamental questions about the history of Earth, the solar system and universe - and about our place in them," said NASA.
"It will allow us to test technology systems, flight operations and exploration techniques to reduce risk and increase the productivity of future missions to Mars, and so on. This will also expand economic Earth lunar sphere to do the activities with benefits to life on the home planet this. "
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