Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lithograph

Video: Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers.

Surveyor 5 image of the footpad resting in the lunar soil.

The first image taken by the Ranger 8 camera B on 20 February 1965 shows the 164 km diameter Ptolemaeus crater, top center, and below it Alphonsus crater (diameter 108 km).

The six Apollo lunar landing sites are all relatively near the equator on the side of the Moon that faces the Earth. 

Apollo 8 Launch

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface an...

Three days prior to its planned impact on a lunar mountain, mission controllers activated the camera aboard one of NASA's GRAIL twins to take some final photos from lunar orbit.

The near side of Earth's Moon, as seen based on data from cameras aboard NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Six photos from Ranger 9 as it approached the lunar surface.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) acquired a high resolution image of the Apollo 11 landing site.

This graphic highlights locations on the moon NASA considers "lunar heritage sites" and the path NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft will take on their final flight. 

Discover the major focus areas for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter during its fifth extended mission phase.

A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts.

Journey to the Moon with the Apollo 13 astronauts.

A view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module.

This visualization of patterns of daylight and shadows at the Moon's poles over a period of two lunar days.

This graphic highlights locations on the moon NASA considers "lunar heritage sites" and the path NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft will take on their final flight.

Engineers prepare NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft for acoustic environmental testing.

This visualization shows the precise location of the Moon’s South Pole.

Mosaic of images taken by the robotic lunar lander Surveyor 7

We go: to the Moon and on to Mars. The Artemis generation will explore farther than we’ve ever gone before.

Ranger 8 image of the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquillity) area of the Moon taken from 511 km about 4 minutes before surface impact.

Lunar Orbiter 4 image of the Moon centered on the Mare Orientale Basin. The outermost circle of the "bull's eye" is the Cordillera Mountain scarp, almost 900 kilometers in diameter.

Final pictures taken by the Ranger 8 P-camera about 1/2 second before impact.

The rising Earth above the lunar horizon as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft.