Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL Mission

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

This bootprint marks one of the first steps human beings took on the moon in July 1969.

Apollo 12 Experiments in Progress

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

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

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (pictured above) performed a live demonstration for the television cameras.

Apollo 16 was the fifth moon landing of Project Apollo, and the 10th manned mission in the Apollo program. It was the second mission to utilize a Lunar Rover (Lunar Roving Vehicle, LRV) during luna...

Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt with the U.S. flag and the Earth in the sky. 

Connecting the history of Apollo 17 to NASA's current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission through the eyes of astronaut Harrison Jack Schmitt.

Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing.

Ranger 8 image of the Moon from 302 km.

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Deep in the craters of the Moon's south pole lurk permanently shadowed regions: areas that have not seen sunlight in over two billion years.

Featured are the standup EVA, the three traverses of the lunar surface, film taken from the Lunar Rover, hammer and feather test of Galileo's theory on falling objects in gravity fields, Worden's E...

A photographic record of the moment NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was struck by a meteoroid.

Close-up view of the plaque which the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the Moon in commemoration of the historic lunar landing mission. 

This animation shows the last three orbits of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with views of the impact site. 

This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2019, at hourly intervals. The imagery is based on actual dat...

Three images of Tycho crater and its central peak, located at 43 S, 11 W, on the Moon.

Artist's rendering of the LCROSS spacecraft and Centaur separation.

Astronaut David R. Scott, Apollo 15 commander.

Set to Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, this visualization uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow near sunrise and sunset on the rugged lunar su...

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon.

NASA's LADEE mission came to an end as the spacecraft executed a planned de-orbit into the surface of the Moon at nearly three thousand, six hundred miles per hour.