I've decided to post images showing what the phase of the Moon is for each day. I've also re-posted a number of my earlier entries with them. These are the view from Earth (actually from a hypothetical observer at the center of a transparent Earth), courtesy of the US Naval Observatory. Keep in mind that LRO is not directly between Earth and Moon, but instead is out in front of the Moon, relatively slowly approaching the intercept point that the Moon is racing towards. So LRO has sort of a "side" view of the Moon, probably seeing past its western limb and more of the currently sunlit part of the surface.
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