Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL Mission

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

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

Lunar orbiter from Langley Research Lunar Orbiter Program.

A simple visualization of Moon orbiting Earth in a view from the north ecliptic pole.

Greetings and art from observers around the world.

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

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...

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

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After its soft landing, Surveyor 6 was the first spacecraft to be launched from the surface of the moon.

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

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.

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

Global map of crustal thickness of the moon derived from gravity data obtained by NASA's GRAIL spacecraft.

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

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

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

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia.

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.

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.

Silent video of the Apollo 8 Saturn V rocket launching into orbit

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

A view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module.

2017 Total Solar Eclipse and the Moon's Orbit

Every Moon phase in 2021.