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Lunar Surface Mosaic from Surveyor 7

hand-assembled grid of photo frames with annotations
Image Credit: NASA/USGS
Published: October 9, 2017

A mosaic of images taken by NASA's robotic lunar lander Surveyor 7, which landed on the Moon Jan. 10, 1968, near Tycho crater.

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