As part of a systematic study of the calibration of the lunar cratering chronology at the Apollo landing sites, we produced a new detailed geological map of the Apollo 12 landing site, using recent orbital data including Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter (LRO) Narrow Angle (NAC) and Wide Angle (...
How to view the Apollo landing sites An easy way to interpret the surface of the moon is to imagine it as a giant clock face. (Image credit: NASA/All About Space Magazine) Related stories: — Best telescopes for beginners, moon and planets — What you can see in this month's night...
zoomable, panable images from two of the Apollo missions to the Moon. Apollo 16 and 17 are the only missions where the astronauts took panoramic images, so these are the only landing sites available in Gigapan. And if you really want ...
The pictures were taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a robotic probein orbit around the moon. The new views from the spacecraft's narrow angle camera are only the third time that close-up pictures of the landing sites have been snapped and resolved by the unmanned spacecra...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths left by astronauts as they explored the lunar surface.
NASA released new photos of the Apollo moon landing sites that were taken by the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned probe in orbit around the moon.
At an International Astronomical Union meeting in 1955, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper asked for suggestions and collaborators on a project to make a map of the moon. At the time, the best lunar atlases had hand-drawn images, and Kuiper wanted to use sta
Fig. 5: Spectral analysis of CE-6 landing area. a, The locations of fresh craters used in the spectral analysis. Base map from CE-2 DOM.b, The absorption centres of pyroxene of varying composition (1 versus 2 μm); blue solid circle, samples of F; light blue solid circle, samples...
A closeup of the Apollo 11 landing site on Mare Tranquilitatis with a map overlay of the New York metro area for scale. This image, acquired during the Apollo 10 mission, is about 75 km across with the scale in the lower left denoting 10 nautical miles (18.52 km). Click on image ...
For All Moonkind is working with space agencies to develop formal protections for space archaeology sites