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NASA's interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year.

Oct 3, 2017 · A NASA spacecraft captures images of the moon that verge on cosmic art. Since 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has collected hundreds of thousands of images of the moon and beamed them to Earth. Combined into a global mosaic, the images provide a dynamic look at how the moon’s surface is changing over time.

Aug 16, 2023 · This image of the full moon is a photographic mosaic made of 1231 images taken by the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in the summer of 2018. Each image tile was selected from over 10,000 of the highest quality NAC frames by searching for the best match of brightness and gradient (the direction and size ...

Jul 16, 2018 · The beautiful lunar landscapes captured in the video include exposures of the lunar crust that will reveal, if sampled by future missions, the earliest processes associated with the formation of the Earth-moon system, the evolution of the moon through a period with a planet-wide magma ocean, and a subsequent period of intense bombardment that ...

Sep 7, 2023 · The Artemis missions will build a community on the Moon, driving a new lunar economy and inspiring a new generation. This video explains why returning to the Moon is the natural next step in human space exploration, and how the lessons learned from Artemis will pave the way to Mars and beyond.

Dec 22, 2023 · This visualization shows the Moon's phase at hourly intervals throughout 2024, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. 2024 phase and libration as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere are available here:

This map depicts the Moon as it appeared on International Observe the Moon Night, September 14, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC September 15). At this phase, many of the best views occur along the terminator (the line between the day and night side of the Moon) where shadows accentuate lunar topography.

Oct 1, 2022 · Explore some of the Moon's most intriguing features through imagery captured from Earth and space.

Sep 7, 2023 · Visualization of the location of all six Apollo landing sites on the Moon, along with the historical Moon phase.