OUR NEAREST NEIGHBOUR, THE MOON

CAROLIN CRAWFORD GRESHAM PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY

JAXA/NHK

Moons diameter is that of the Earth average distance is 30 x diameter of the Earth surface area is less than 1/10th of the Earths mass is 1%, and volume is about 2% of the Earths

NASA (Messenger)

Moons diameter is that of the Earth average distance is 30 x diameter of the Earth surface area is less than 1/10th of the Earths mass is 1%, and volume is about 2% of the Earths gravity is 1/6th that of the Earths

Anne Riou

Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels

LROC/WAC/Arizona State University

Galileo Thomas Harriott William Gilbert

John Adams Whipple

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QUARTER

CRESCENT

GIBBOUS

Sunlight

NEW

FULL

GIBBOUS

THIRD QUARTER

CRESCENT

NASA/ Apollo 11

JAXA/NHK

P-M Hedn (Clear Skies)

Sunlight

NEW

Mir 27 Crew / CNES

Wavelength photography

Koen van Gorp

Sunlight

FULL

Letian Wang

Ecliptic

Moons orbit
Earths axial tilt to the Ecliptic

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Luna 3 / USSR

LROC/WAC/Arizona

mare

LROC/WAC/Arizona

mare

NASA/Apollo 8

rilles

NASA/Apollo 15

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

wrinkle ridges

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

mare

highlands

LROC/WAC/Arizona

NASA/Apollo 17

NASA/JPL

LROC/WAC/Arizona

LROC/WAC/Arizona

LROC/WAC/Arizona

NASA/Apollo 11

NASA/Apollo 17

NASA

NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA

Highlands - anorthosite material that has been previously melted and then cooled ~4.6 billion years old Regolith breccias pre-existing rock that has been changed by being crushed and melted 3.9 to 3.8 billion years ago Mare - basalts material that erupted in magma-lava outflow 3.2 to 3.9 billion years

NASA/LRO/SVC

NASA Apollo 11

Doug Zubenel

ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown U

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

LROC/WAC/Arizona

LROC/WAC/Arizona

Tycho

130km
NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

Kepler

NASA/Apollo 12

800m
NASA/GSFC/Arizona

500m

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

100m

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

JAXA/Selene

NASA/Apollo 15

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

Apollo 13 (1969)

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

Surveyor 6 (1967)

Luna 17 (1970)
NASA/GSFC/Arizona

& Lunakhod 1 (1970)

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/Apollo 11

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/Apollo 11

NASA/Apollo 12

NASA/GSFC/Arizona

NASA/Apollo 12

NASA/Apollo 12

NASA/Apollo 11

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