Moon 3D Map allows you to view Moon landscape in a new way. The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing the same face with its near side marked by dark volcanic …

Jan 29, 2025 · Lunar impact craters are the depressions left behind after an asteroid, meteoroid, or comet collides with the Moon. Though craters are visible on worlds throughout the solar …

The situation is especially unclear in regions of the Moon where there are many of these lettered craters, or when the parent crater is located on a different quadrangle than the satellite crater. …

Apr 24, 2020 · In the most comprehensive lunar map yet, the moon looks like it’s been playing paintball. Each splash of color identifies a discrete rock or sediment formation, including …

Feb 26, 2024 · This map uses size and color to show where on the Moon you can find the largest and most numerous craters. (Source: Maps.com)

Oct 28, 2024 · These maps are based on a digital elevation model (DEM) from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA; Smith et al., 2010), an instrument on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance …

Caption: The near side of the Moon with the major maria (singular mare, vocalized mar-ray) and lunar craters identified. Features: This is an image Moon map with labels.

A sortable compendium of all known and named significant craters, mountains, rilles, scarps, valleys and other geographical features on the Moon. All columns are sortable – either …

The images below show the density of craters greater than or equal to 20 km in diameter, and those between 5 and 20 km in diameter. Areal crater density maps for craters ≥20 kilometers …

Jan 4, 2019 · Moon craters are bowl-shaped landforms created by two processes: volcanism and cratering. There are hundreds of thousands of moon craters ranging from less than a mile …

Oct 28, 2015 · Use this map to help you spot the several naked eye craters and crater-ray systems visible around the time of Full Moon. In addition to craters, try to spot the Apennines …

Sep 16, 2010 · A NASA spacecraft charting the topography of the moon in exceptional detail has produced a catalogue of lunar craters that traces billions of years of impact history on the moon.

Jan 14, 2025 · The Moon does not. Pretty much any tiny dent made on the Moon’s surface is going to stay there. Three processes help Earth keep its surface crater free. The first is called …

3 days ago · The moon’s grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye The Earth's Grand Canyon took ... They used images obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to …

2 days ago · “Several impacts on the Moon have created crater trails, but these two are the largest known,” David Kring, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in the United …

2 days ago · The data allowed the team to construct maps of the region, including the basin and its surroundings. ... The Schrödinger impact basin, one of the younger, large impact craters on …

3 days ago · Kenneth Chang recently reported on new views within some of the moon’s darkest craters. Feb. 4, 2025 Two canyons near the south pole of the moon rival the Grand Canyon, …

3 days ago · The maximum diameter of secondary craters produced by primary craters ≤ 260 km in diameter is 4% of the primary crater’s diameter 29, which, if extrapolated to the 320 km …

4 days ago · The two extraordinary features were produced during a period of planetary upheaval when the Earth and Moon were being resurfaced by impacting asteroids and comets. “Nearly …

4 days ago · This structure is located in the outer margin of the moon's largest and oldest remaining impact crater, the South Pole–Aitken basin, which measures about 1,490 miles wide …

2 days ago · U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris that produced these …

3 days ago · Washington, D.C., and Houston, TX—February 4, 2025. In a significant discovery, a team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), an institute of the Universities …