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jsc2004e52779 - Panorama view of Apollo 17 lunar surface photos for Station 6 taken during the third moonwalk of the...
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet...
AS16-115-18559 (23 April 1972) --- Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, drives...
AS17-134-20435 (10 Dec. 1972) --- Wide-angle view of the Apollo 17 Taurus-Littrow lunar landing site. To the left in...
This artist’s concept portrays SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) with two Raptor engines lit, performing...
AS14-68-9448 (6 Feb. 1971) --- A close-up view of a large multi-colored boulder in the boulder field located on the...
AS14-64-9135 (6 Feb. 1971) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, took this close-up view of a large boulder,...
Project LOLA. Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator...
This image of the lunar surface was taken by NASA MoonKAM system onboard the Ebb spacecraft and shows Crater Poinsot...
Mare Ingenii may be best known for its prominent lunar swirls, which are high albedo surface features associated...
This image of the far side of the lunar surface, with Earth in the background, is of crater De Forest and was taken...
When composited into a global mosaic, the images from LROC's wide angle lens can show the mineral content and...
A schematic shows the daytime cycle of hydration, loss and rehydration on the lunar surface. This theory is based on...
Scientists using NASA’s telescope on an airplane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, discovered...
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in lunar orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the...
AS17-140-21494 (13 Dec. 1972) --- This view shows the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) parked by an outcrop of rocks by...
AS17-147-22523 (11 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan is seen test driving the "stripped down" Lunar Rover...
AS17-140-21388 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, mission commander, walks toward the Lunar Roving...
AS17-147-22526 (11 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving...
jsc2011e118362 - Panorama view of Apollo 16 lunar surface photos of the Station 10 and Sample 381 Rock taken during...
This artist's concept shows the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a six-unit CubeSat designed to search for ice on the...
Animations for media and public use. These animation sequences show NASA’s Lunar Flashlight SmallSat deploying in...
These graben - a kind of trench that is formed as a surface expands - were imaged near a region of the Moon called...
Artemis 1 will be the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space...