PICTURES OF THE MOON

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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to boulder at Taurus-Littrow

Three-filter color image of the Moon

This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by Galileo's imaging system

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False-color image of the Mare Tranquilitatis and Mare Serenitatis regions on the Moon

Four images of the Moon taken by Galileo's Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer

Another false-color image of the Moon

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Ultraviolet/Visible image of Tycho

Long-Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) image of Tycho

Near Infrared (NIR) image of Tycho

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High-resolution (HIRES) image of Tycho

Image from Star trackers experiment

This image was taken by Galileo as it flew by the Earth-Moon system in 1990

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This image was taken by Voyager as it left the Earth-Moon system and looked back. It was the first picture taken by a spacecraft which included both the Earth and Moon.

This image was taken by NEAR as it flew by the Earth-Moon system in January 1998

The Earth rising over the Moon as seen by the Apollo 8 astronauts

Click here to download a movie of astronauts driving the lunar rover on the Moon. (320K)