LRO - Eclipse Observations from LRO Lithograph

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit.

Since the 1960s, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the moon's poles.

Apollo 17's Gene Cernan drives the lunar roving vehicle during the early part of the first moonwalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The Lunar Module is in the background.

A lunar boulder studied by Apollo 14 astronauts.

Explore how NASA operates the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft around the Moon.

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

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

Lunar Orbiter 1 view of the Korolev basin on the far side of the Moon.

This movie shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May 2012.

A mosaic of images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter centered on the Moon's Orientale basin. 

Video of the moon taken by the NASA GRAIL mission's MoonKam camera aboard the Ebb spacecraft on Dec. 14, 2012

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

NASA created this chart in 1967 to illustrate the flight path and key mission events for the upcoming Apollo missions to the Moon.

A view of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" as it returned from the surface of the Moon to dock with the command module "Columbia".

This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. 

Clementine colorized image showing the full Earth over the Moon's north pole.

Lunar Orbiter 1 new of the Moon and crescent Earth. This is the first good image of the Earth taken from the vicinity of the Moon, 380,000 km away.

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

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...

NASA experts discuss astronaut training, tools for the Artemis mission, and the importance of returning to the Moon.

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).

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

A partially illuminated Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the Apollo 12 spacecraft.

Astronaut David R. Scott, right, commander of the Apollo 15 mission, gets a close look at the sample referred to as "Genesis rock."

Ranger 8 image of the Moon from 302 km.