Moffett Field, California – The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960s using ...

On August 23, 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, showing our planet as a delicate crescent rising above the lunar horizon. While ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of the Lunar Orbiter was ...

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their ...

The Moon, long treated as a geologically dead world, is producing seismic activity from sources that scientists are only now beginning to identify. Reanalysis of decades-old Apollo seismic records, ...

This high -sun image of the Apollo 16 landing site showing the lunar module descent stage, various pieces of equipment, and disturbed lunar soil (seen as darker lines and areas) which marks where John ...

This view of the moon shows the vast Janssen K crater in 3D as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It is a roughly 12-kilometer-diameter crater on the floor of the large Janssen Crater. Image ...

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