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Images from Earth's Moon, the only world beyond Earth where humans have set foot.

Dramatic grayscale image of a mountainous lunar landscape. Large craters with black shadows inside are visible in the background. In the foreground, a mountain is sunlit from the right and pocked with small craters.

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From early robotic explorers to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), from Apollo to Artemis, from Earth to the Moon and back—get to know our nearest neighbor in space through photographs and data maps.

POV: You're On the Moon
Revealing The Invisible
Moonscapes
The Moon From Earth
Earthrise, Earthset: Looking Towards Home
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POV: You're On the Moon

Views from human and robotic explorers on the lunar surface.

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Astronaut on Moon holding antenna with distant Earth in the background

Earth Above Lunar Roving Vehicle Antenna (Apollo 17)

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Astronaut on the lunar surface, taking a photograph. Rolling hills line the horizon in the background.

Exploring Hadley Delta (Apollo 15)

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Astronaut driving rover on the Moon

David Scott in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (Apollo 15)

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View from surface of lunar crater. The foreground looks like an expanse of rocky rubble. In the background, lighter-colored, dune-shaped hills rise under a dark sky.

View of a Relatively Fresh Lunar Crater (Apollo 15)

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Lunar module on the moon, backlit, casting a deep shadow towards the viewer

Antares Lunar Module on the Moon (Apollo 14)

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Lunar surface experiments package deployed on Moon

Lunar Surface Experiments Package (Apollo 14)

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Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)

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Image of Surveyor 1's shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper right. Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved the spacecraft design and landing technique

Surveyor 1's Shadow

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Moonscapes

See the Moon's mountains, craters, lava flows, and more through the "eyes" of robotic explorers like NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

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Ancient Volcanic Vent near Plato Crater (LRO)

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Dramatic grayscale image of a mountainous lunar landscape. Large craters with black shadows inside are visible in the background. In the foreground, a mountain is sunlit from the right and pocked with small craters.

Malapert Massif (LRO)

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Deep grooves in gray lunar terrain. The effect looks similar to cracked or wrinkled clay.

Fractured Komarov Crater (LRO)

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large, rugged impact crater seen nearly edge-on on the lunar horizon

Copernicus Crater (Lunar Orbiter)

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Steep, rugged mountains casting a dramatic shadow across the lunar surface.

Tycho Crater's Central Peak (LRO)

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This is an image of Shackleton Crater, an impact crater that lies at the lunar South Pole. The image is engulfed in a sea of darkness, only a sliver of the crater�s rim is illuminated, forming a lit-up half circle. While peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, the interior is perpetually in shadow.

Shackleton Crater's Illuminated Rim (LRO)

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Lunar surface, pockmarked with craters, and dominated by a large, bright, swirl-detailed feature in roughly the shape of a tadpole with a curved tail.

Lunar Swirl Reiner Gamma (LRO)

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Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon

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Earthrise, Earthset: Looking Towards Home

Views of Earth from human & robotic explorers on their way to, around, and back home from the Moon.

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A New View of the Moon (Artemis II)

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Artemis-Era Earthrise

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"Hello, World" (Artemis II)

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2015: Earthrise 2.0 (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

High-Res Earthrise (LRO)

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NASA's Moon Minerology Mapper, a guest instrument onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission to the moon, looks homeward. Australia is visible in the lower center of the image.

Moon Mineralogy Mapper Looks Homeward

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The Blue Marble from Apollo 17

"Blue Marble" (Apollo 17)

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First Human-Observed Lunar Earthrise (Apollo 8)

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First Lunar Earthrise (Lunar Orbiter 1)

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Revealing the Invisible

Visible light images can tell us a lot, but not everything. These data maps reveal lunar surface temperatures, slope and elevation, subsurface rockiness, and more.

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Illumination Map of the Moon's South Pole

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Faces of Shackleton

Faces of Shackleton

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color-coded map of heavily-cratered terrain

Topographic Map of the Lunar South Polar Region (LRO)

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Data visualization of swirls of green and blues of the surface slopes at the Moon's south pole.

Slope Map of the Lunar South Pole

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Copernicus in Color!

Copernicus in Color (LRO)

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Ultraviolet & Visible Tycho Crater (Clementine)

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Visible & Near-Infrared Moon (Galileo)

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View of the half-lit Moon. A different lunar hemisphere than the one that faces Earth. Dark patches and basins splotch the sunlit quarter. Faint

North Polar Mosaic - Color Composite (Galileo)

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The Moon from Earth

Views from our home planet.

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The eclipsed Moon glows red in a starry, partially hazy night sky, above a cliff of layered rock in the foreground.

March 2026 Total Lunar Eclipse

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Lone Peak Moon

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A reddish sky is shown with the bright circle of the Sun, a dark bite taken out of it. The dark circle covering about a third of the Sun's left side is the Moon, during a solar eclipse. In the foreground is the silhouette of the U.S. Capitol.

June 2021 Partial Solar Eclipse

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Moonset on the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Launch

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A black circle surrounded by a white, smudgey, streaky halo showing the Moon blocking the Sun during an eclipse.

August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

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Supermoon and Jet (2017)

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Total Lunar Eclipse Sequence

September 2015 Supermoon Eclipse

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International Space Station Lunar Transit

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One of the STS-103 astronauts inside Discovery's cabin took this image of the full Moon backdropped against the blackness of space over Earth's horizon. The top of the berthed Hubble Space Telescope (HST) appears in the frame.

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Hubble and the Moon

The earth on the left, the moon in the middle, and the top of Hubble on the right.

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