"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

If successful, it would provide a way to date other impact basins on the moon that have become much more degraded than the younger Orientale. "We chose to map Orientale basin because it's ...

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the ...

Beautiful lunar maps spanning four centuries of progress wonderfully illustrate the unfolding of our ability to map the Moon. Rare, early, photographs add to the sense of history. Comprehensive ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) has released a new map of the Moon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of humans landing there. OS has been producing detailed maps of Great Britain for almost 230 years ...

A map dating from 1742 comes from the Atlas Coelestis (atlas of the sky) Old maps of the Moon and stars are being shared to mark 50 years since the first manned lunar landing. Some will feature in ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

And when Ebb and Flow had fulfilled their duties, NASA crashed them into a rocky hillside on the moon. These "psychedelic" maps and an ashy crater are all that remain. NASA's Scientific ...

a new moon race is on Explore 50 years of lunar visits with our newest moon map Explore 50 years of lunar visits with our newest moon map Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge ...