Explore an interactive Moon map featuring detailed views of craters, seas, and highlands. Discover key lunar landmarks and learn about the Moon's surface with this comprehensive guide.

This map depicts the Moon as it will appear from the Northern Hemisphere on October 21, 2023, the date of International Observe the Moon Night. Many of the best views will occur along the …

Nov 13, 2024 · Visualize, explore, and analyze the lunar surface using real data returned from a growing fleet of spacecraft. View the Moon through the eyes of many different instruments, …

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 …

Examples of simple and complex impact craters on the Moon where original morphologies are better preserved than on Earth. The crater Taruntis H (left, detail from Apollo 10 image H …

Clearly visible impact melt deposits in a small percentage of simple craters, and two cases of craters differing in morphologies from their nearest neighbors in similar geologic settings, …

depends on its size. The Crater Diagram handout shows cross sections of the structure of small, simple craters (top) and of larger, more complex craters (bottom). Simple craters have bowl …

The obvious lunar crater in the south is Tycho---which is the one lunar crater most people remember. Tycho is the most obvious rayed crater---it has large radial rays emanating from it …

Download scientific diagram | 14 (a) Plaskett crater on the Moon photographed by Apollo 14. This complex crater, 110 km in diameter, shows clearly developed central peaks and slump blocks...

Jan 30, 2019 · Tycho Crater is one of the most prominent craters on the Moon. It appears as a bright spot in the southern highlands with rays of bright material that stretch across much of …

The lunar craters are listed in the following subsections. Where a formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

Tycho (/ ˈ t aɪ k oʊ /) is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). [2] It is estimated to be 108 …

This is an image of a small crater on the Moon taken in 1965 by Lunar Orbiter III. You will measure the diameter and depth of this crater and calculate the depth/diameter ratio for …

It is possible to approximate the height of various surface features (like impact craters), by measuring the shadows they cast. As shown in the diagram, a crater with a height, H, casts a …

Most of the Moon is pocked with deep, circular features called impact craters. The lunar surface has been continually scarred by impacts of all sizes, ranging from large basin-forming impacts …

Here is an animation of a crater forming (from a laboratory experiment). And here is how you can make craters in the class room! See the animation and read the notes. For a details map of …

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 …