To the Moon!

Tips to evaluating your International Observe the Moon Night event

Mark your calendars: a series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on Dec. 3, 2017, Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31, 2018.

Moonrise over the Syr Darya river.

Save the date! International Observe the Moon Night 2019 is on October 5. 

LRO: Lunar Topography Lithograph

This powerpoint was developed by LPI for use in teacher workshops, but may be modified for individual use.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission and the Moon’s Role in the Solar Eclipse

The phase and libration of the Moon for 2018, at hourly intervals. Includes supplemental graphics that display the Moon's orbit, subsolar and sub-Earth points, and the Moon's distance from Earth at...

It's not just a time-lapse composite image of our Moon as it arcs across the sky, it's a "super blue blood Moon" eclipse! 

LRO: Seeing the Moon Lithograph

A complete slideshow overview of NASA's Apollo lunar exploration program.

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

Points of interest on the Moon for International Observe the Moon Night 2019. Find them with your binoculars or telescopes!

Customize with your event information!

This powerpoint was developed by LPI for use in teacher workshops, but may be modified for individual use.

Lunar Image Processing Tutorial, written by Robert Reeves

Now you can have all the dates and times for all the Moon phases for the year at your fingertips.

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. 

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

Spend the next month getting to know the Moon. Set aside some time each day to look at the Moon. Record your observations in the log provided on the back of this page.

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...

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

What does the other side of the Moon look like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth? This video answers that question.

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...

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