Lunar surface

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

There are also plentiful patches of secret ice in "cold traps."

Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic

Apollo 17 entered lunar orbit on Dec. 10, 1972. The next day, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt, the first trained geologist to

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These images appear in the 1874 book The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Calling on their three decades of “assiduous observation”, British scientists James Nasmyth (19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890) and James Carpenter (1840–1899) showed readers detailed close-ups of the lunar surface made from plaster models. The images … Continue reading "Striking Photographs of The Lunar Surface from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874)"

On December 24, 1968, NASA’s Astronaut Bill Anders captured this historic first image of Earth from the Lunar orbit during the Apollo 8 mission. Anders saw the Earth rising above the Lunar horizon and decided to take the colour shot of the scene using his Hasselblad handheld camera and a 250 mm lens. NASA scientists describe this photo as the first view of Earthrise above the lunar horizon. If you look closely, you will see the lunar surface captured in the photo as well.

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Lucien Rudaux. Views from the surface of the Moon, c. 1900.