MOON
Moon1 3D | Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean on the Moon, November, 1969. |
Moon2 3D | Apollo 17 landing site within the 2 km deep Taurus-Littrow Valley, December, 1972. |
Moon3 3D | Apollo 17 footprints left in the lunar soil. |
Moon4 3D | Boulders visited by the Apollo 17 astronauts were probably ejected from a nearby crater. |
Moon5 3D | The rim of North Ray Crater, 1 km across, visited by Apollo 16 astronauts in April, 1972. |
Moon6 3D | The Surveyor 3 spacecraft visited by astronaut Pete Conrad during the Apollo 12 mission. |
Craters | Pictures of the giant lunar craters Copernicus and Tycho. |
Lunar Soil | A magnified portion of orange lunar soil returned by the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The particles are less than .1 mm across. Also a lunar spherule. |
Lunar Exploration | Some pictures taken on the lunar surface. |
Lunar Eclipse | Time lapse photography of a lunar eclipse. |
Moon & Stars | The Moon seen against background stars. A short exposure of the Moon superimposed on a longer exposure of the background stars. |
One Lunation | This animation shows the Moon going through one lunation, or 29.5 days. The phases change, the apparent size changes, and the Moon also wobbles. The wobble is called libration. |
Moon & Mars | Spectacular picture of the close approach of Mars to the Moon on July 17, 2003. |