Hubble View of Apollo 17 Landing Region on the Moon

Aristarchus Plateau on the Moon

The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaged Aristarchus crater and nearby Schroter's Valley rille on Aug. 21, 2005. The Hubble images reveal fine-scale details of the crater's interior and exterior in ultraviolet and visible wavelengths at a scale of...

Hubble Reveals Potential Titanium Oxide Deposits at Aristarchus and Schroter's Valley Rille

This view of the lunar impact crater Aristarchus and adjacent features (Herodotus crater, Schroter's Valley rille) illustrates the ultraviolet and visible wavelength characteristics of this geologically diverse region of the Moon. The two inset images illustrate one preliminary...

Aristarchus Plateau in Ultraviolet Light

The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaged Aristarchus crater and nearby Schroter's Valley rille on Aug. 21, 2005. The Hubble images reveal fine-scale details of the crater's interior and exterior in ultraviolet and visible wavelengths at a scale of...

Schroter's Valley Rille in False Color

This color-composite focuses on a section of Schroter's Valley (rille) and employs ultraviolet- to visible-color-ratio information to accentuate differences that are potentially diagnostic of ilmenite- (i.e, titanium oxide) bearing materials as well as pyroclastic glasses. Bluer...

Aristarchus Crater in False Color

This color composite focuses on the 26-mile-diameter (42-kilometer-diameter) Aristarchus impact crater, and employs ultraviolet- to visible-color-ratio information to accentuate differences that are potentially diagnostic of ilmenite- (i.e, titanium oxide) bearing materials as...

Apollo 17 Landing Region

This image showcases Hubble Space Telescope's first high-resolution ultraviolet and visible imaging of the Apollo 17 landing region within the Taurus-Littrow valley of the Moon. Humans last walked and drove on the lunar surface in this region (marked "+" in the image at left and...

Hubble Image Overlaid on Modeling of Apollo 17 Landing Site

This image was constructed by overlaying the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys image of the Apollo 17 landing region within the Taurus-Littrow valley, taken on Dec. 16, 2005, with a digital-terrain model acquired by the Apollo program to provide a perspective view looking from...

Apollo 17 Astronaut's Snapshot of Taurus-Littrow Valley

This image was taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts (Dr. H. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan). It illustrates a view of the rim of Shorty crater and the lunar roving vehicle against a backdrop of the mountain-like massifs that define the Taurus-Littrow valley.

Aristarchus Depth Comparison

Depth Comparison of the Grand Canyon versus the Aristarchus Crater Aristarchus crater is almost three times as deep as the Grand Canyon.

Sites of Hubble Lunar Observations

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took ultraviolet and visible-light images of the Apollo 15 and 17 landing regions and the Aristarchus crater in Aug. 2005.

A Close-Up View of the Aristarchus Crater

The Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped this close-up view of the Aristarchus crater on Aug. 21, 2005. The crater is 26 miles (42 kilometers) in diameter and approximately 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) in depth, and sits at the southeastern edge of the...

Hubble's View of the Apollo 17 Landing Site

This image of the Taurus-Littrow valley shows the Apollo 17 landing site (the "+" symbol in the image). This region marks the last time – December 1972 – that humans walked and drove on the Moon's surface. Astronomers are using the Apollo 17 images (and those of the Apollo 15...

An Astronaut's Snapshot of the Moon

Apollo 17 astronauts Dr. H. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan took this image of the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley. The view shows the lunar roving vehicle near the rim of Shorty crater. In the distance are the mountain-like massifs that define the Taurus-Littrow valley. This region...

NASA News Conference: Lunar Prospecting with Hubble (Webcast)

NASA hosted a news conference October 19th, 2005 at 1pm to discuss new Hubble Space Telescope images of the moon's surface in ultraviolet light. Hubble's resolution and sensitivity to ultraviolet light have allowed the telescope to search for important oxygen-bearing minerals on...

Apollo 17 Site – 2D Zoom-In

Starting from a full moon image made from Apollo imagery then a zoom diving deep into the Taurus-Littrow Valley the landing site of Apollo 17. Pushing deeper into the animation reveals the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys data of the Apollo 17 Camelot crater.

Apollo 17 Site – 3D Topography

A 3-dimensional topography where Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys data was overlaid on top of the model of the Taurus-Littrow Valley, the landing site of Apollo 17. A fly through of the valley views the Camelot crater.

Aristarchus Site – 2D Zoom-In

Starting from a full moon image made from Apollo imagery then a zoom diving deep into the Aristarchus site on the Moon. Pushing deeper into the animation reveals the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys data of the Aristarchus crater and the Schroter's Valley rille.

Aristarchus Site w/ Color Overlay – 3D Topography

A 3-dimensional topography where Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys data was overlaid on top of the modeling using Clementine and Apollo data of the Aristarchus Valley. A fly through of the valley starts with the Aristarchus crater and then Schroter's Valley rille. The...

HubbleMinute: Moon, Mars and Beyond

This HubbleMinute gives an overview of how the Hubble Space Telescope is using science to help with decisions for developing NASA's new Exploration Initiative.

Interview with Dr. Jim Garvin

Interview with Dr. Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center discusses how Hubble Space Telescope combines high-resolution vision, with this new ultraviolet unexplored part of the spectrum, to look for this unique material of titanium oxides.