Click and drag the title bars to move dialogs within the browser window. Some interesting lunar landforms that have favorable lighting for viewing tonight are identified here. Those maps were used to create the imagery seen here. Displays a compact view of the entire planetary body being viewed, along with a red box indicating the current viewport. These locations, each fascinating for their own particular reasons, sampled a wide range of lunar geology and terrain, from smooth mare plains to rugged ancient highlands. Graphics: Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 each landed in different locations on the lunar surface. Image credit: Surabaya Astronomy Club (Location: Surabaya, Indonesia), Meet our nearest neighbor in space. They can be viewed in binoculars or even with the unaided eye. Click an icon to restore a dialog. Edit one or both coordinates and press enter or click the "Recenter & Reproject" button to reproject the map centered on the chosen location. "Recenter" reprojects and recenters the map on the clicked location. LRO data is essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon.

The footprint layers (LROC and Apollo) are queryable, as described above. Andrea Jones, Caela Barry, Tracy Vogel Unlike other dialog boxes, the thumbnail dialog can also be resized by clicking and dragging the corner or side "handle". Text boxes labeled "Center Latitude" and "Center Longitude" display the center coordinates of the projection. NASA Official:

Lori Glaze Click "+" and "-" to zoom, or click a "notch" in between to go directly to a desired zoom level. None (double-click to zoom) Recenter; Recenter & Zoom; Get Footprint Info Alternatively, the control in the top-left corner may be used to navigate the map. If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that

A single base layer may be selected, while most other layers may be selected simultaneously. Apollo Sites
Selecting a "Single-click action" will cause one of the following actions to take place when the map is clicked: Click "Permalink" to display a URL in the browser's command line which contains all the settings for the map as it's currently displayed. Content Development: This interface is rigorously tested in various versions of the major browsers. Our Moon Maps highlight lunar features to explore on September 26, 2020. Once thought to be seas of water, these are actually large, flat plains of solidified basaltic lava. The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. Scientists using the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are acquiring stereo images of the moon in high resolution (0.5 to 2 meters/pixel) that provide 3-D views of the surface from which high resolution topographic maps are made.

xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. Each thumbnail links to an informational page describing that footprint. With the mouse cursor positioned in the main map view, click and drag to pan the map in any direction.

"Recenter & Zoom" reprojects and recenters the map and zooms in one level. Click within footprint outlines to display a dialog box containing thumbnails of all footprints containing the clicked location. Click the 'X' in the upper-right corner to shrink the dialog to an icon. For example, polar stereographic projections have fixed centers (the corresponding pole) so neither field is shown.