Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL Mission

A full moon rising over Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on September 16th 2016

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

This NASA video details the first journey of men around the moon.

These maps of the moon show the "Bouguer" gravity anomalies as measured by NASA's GRAIL mission.

A recording of the Apollo 8 astronauts reading from the book of Genesis.

Lunar orbiter from Langley Research Lunar Orbiter Program.

Ranger 8 image of the Moon from 302 km.

Topography of Earth's moon generated from data collected by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum regio...

The far side of Earth's Moon.

Color an outline of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft as it orbits the Moon. 

Footage of the recovery of the Apollo 8 crew

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

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

LRO - Eclipse Observations from LRO Lithograph

This video explains the formation of several mysterious looking features on the Moon, while providing some quirky humor along the way.

In the early morning hours of April 15, 2014, the Moon enters the Earth’s shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse.

The scenes in the video are so dramatic that you may find yourself reaching out to pick up a rock and becoming restless to walk among the lunar peaks.

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.

Astronaut John W. Young, commander of Apollo 16, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag.

Virtual tour of the Radiation Effects Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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

These four images were the first taken by the Ranger 8 P-series cameras.

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

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lithograph

Take a look at the Apollo landing sites as well as the Moon’s South Pole, an area with enormous potential for future exploration.