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

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

Tycho Crater's Central Peak (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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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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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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Eastern rim of Dionysius crater.

Dionysius Crater (LRO)

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a collapse pit in an otherwise smooth gray surface

Lunar Pit (LRO)

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Scientists have discovered these wrinkle ridges in a region of the Moon called Mare Frigoris. These ridges add to evidence that the Moon has an actively changing surface. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Wrinkle Ridges on the Moon (LRO)

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view of round, deep lunar crater, with light-colored, radially streaked inner wall

Pierazzo Crater (LRO)

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Natural Bridge on the Moon (LRO)

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Low-angle orbital view of a crater with concentric levels inside, like an amphitheater.

Aristarchus Crater - Oblique (LRO)

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Bright crater seen from directly above, with rays of ejected lunar surface material extending in all directions.

Unnamed Crater (LRO)

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Oblique view of tall, rugged lunar mountains. Bright sunlight casts dramatic shadows between the peaks.

Copernicus Crater's Central Peak (LRO)

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Composite, orbital view of the lunar surface with dark cool-toned, dark lava patches, pinkish-grey highlands, and bright crater rays. Some lines and boxes of plain black interrupt the mosaic.

Lunar Surface: Color Composite (LRO)

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Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon (LRO)

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Black and white image of the Moon from orbit with small lines showing path walked by Apollo 11 astronauts.

Apollo 11 Landing Site (LRO)

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Black and white image of ridge emerging from shadows on the Moon.

Jackson Emerges (LRO)

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Bright, small crater crater on the sloped edge of a larger crater

Hawke Crater (LRO)

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Rocky, jagged terrain of Jackson Crater

Jackson Crater's Central Peak (LRO)

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Oblique view of a crater shaped like a rounded triangle, with its edge casting a dramatic shadow inside.

Two Craters or One? (LRO)

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Light-colored streaks of debris on the dark grey lunar surface.

Clerke Crater Interior (LRO)

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Aristarchus Crater (LRO)

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Black and white image showing a spray of impact debris from a Moon crater.

Fresh Crater Ejecta Blanket (LRO)

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hills and valleys on the lunar surface, with a looping trench in the background

Soaring Over Lunar Mt. Hadley (LRO)

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The Moon's North Pole (LRO)

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A crater with a mounded floor and ejecta streaks radiating from the center of the crater.

Giordano Bruno Crater (LRO)

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Tycho Crater (Hubble)

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close view of the Moon's rugged surface

The Moon from Cassini

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

Copernicus Crater (Lunar Orbiter)

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Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by aU.S. spacecraft, on 31 July 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT) about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface.

First Picture of the Moon from a U.S. Spacecraft (Ranger 7)

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hand-assembled grid of photo frames with annotations

Lunar Surface Mosaic (Surveyor 7)

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