2007 First Moon Images

Galileo Galilei's "The Phases of the Moon"	First Picture of the Moon Taken by Ranger 8	First Close-up of the Moon from Luna 3	First Image of the Far Side of the Moon	First View of Earth from Moon
Aristarchus plateau with Herodotus crater	King Crater on the Moon's farside	Copernicus Crater looing across Mare Imbrium	Smooth dark areas are called "maria" (Latin for seas)	The Orientale Basin near western limb of lunar nearside

  Apollo Landing Site Locator

Apollo 15 landing site, lies in the hills immediately east of the Mare Imbrium lava lake.	Apollo 16 landing site, labeled with crater names	Near the Apollo 17 landing site on the ground, showing Shorty Crater	Apollo 17 landing site, between quite high hills , terrain is subdued in a thick blanket of airfall regolith.
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin photographed this footprint in the lunar soil	Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot	Apollo 16 metric camera picture of Ptolemaeus crater	Apollo 17 Taurus-Littrow Landing Site	Taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts as they became the first humans to circumnavigate the Moon.

  Moon Rock Samples

Apollo 15, Basalt

Apollo 16, Anorthosite

Apollo 16, Troctolite

Apollo 17, Breccia

  Clementine Gallery

Projection of the whole lunar surface	North Pole of the Moon	Clementine, crater	Clementine, crater	Clementine, crater
Clementine Observes the Moon, Solar Corona, and Venus	Nearside of Earth's Moon as Seen by Clementine	East Limb View of Earth's Moon as Seen by Clementine	Farside View of Earth's Moon as Seen by Clementine	South Pole Aitken Basin

  Related Web Sites

+ Consolidated Lunar Atlas
+ Ranger Photographs of the Moon
+ Apollo Image Atlas
+ USGS Clickable Lunar Map
+ Clementine Lunar Image Browser
+ NSSDC Clementine Gallery
+ Clementine Images on the Moon (LPI)