Smithsonian Planetary Image Facility

Crater Concentric Ridges on the Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of crater concentric ridges on the Moon.

NASA/GSFC/ASU

Mosaic of Moon’s North Pole
Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon's north polar region.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University

Map of Moon's Crust
Map of crustal thickness derived from gravity data from NASA's GRAIL and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT/GSFC

Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon
Craters in the center of the Apollo basin on Earth's moon, named to memorialize the lost crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

NASA/GSFC/DLR/Arizona State University

Moon Topography
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera's topographic map of the Moon.

NASA/GSFC/DLR/Arizona State University

The Lee-Lincoln Scarp on the Moon
The Lee-Lincoln Scarp on the Moon. This digital terrain model derived from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) stereo images shows the fault scarp extending across the volcanic plains of the Taurus-Littrow valley and upslope into North Massif were highlands material are also thrust up (white arrows). The scarp is just west of the Apollo 17 landing site (black arrow). It is the only extraterrestrial fault scarp to be explored by humans (astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt).

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University

The Moon
The Galileo spacecraft took this image on December 7, 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system.

NASA/JPL/USGS

Nearside of Earth's Moon as Seen by the Clementine Spacecraft
Images collected by the Clementine satellite were processed to produce this nearside view of the Moon. The

NASA/JPL/USGS

Moon Color Composite
This color image of the Moon was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 9:35 a.m. PST Dec. 9, 1990, at a range of about 350,000 miles.

NASA/JPL

Earth - Moon Conjunction
View of Earth and Moon from the Galileo spacecraft on December 16, 1992.

NASA/JPL