Astronomy --- Moon-Renderings - Dark Side
| Published: | 02.06.2025 |
NASA
USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Maps
Realistic view
Contrast-enhanced
Global views
Realistic, almost without shadows.
Contrast-enhanced.
Mare Kyiv at the top, in the middle crater Mendeleev, below Gagarin.
Below the center of the image crater Korolev, above the Dirichlet–Jackson Basin.
Craters
Crater Jackson, looks remarkably similar to Tycho on the earth-facing side. The Japanese probe Kaguya filmed it during an overflight.
Above the center of the picture with the conspicuous central mountain crater Keeler, on the left with a large crater at 11 o'clock Gagarin. The flat area below the center of the image is the Mare Ingenii.
Above left Mare Kyiv, a flat area with a crater ring inside, below of it crater Mendeleev
The moon, only a few days old, with the conspicuous crater Hertzsprung on the right.
Korolev on the left and Hertzsprung on the right with the moon waxing.
Korolev on the left and Hertzsprung on the right with the moon waning.
Videos
Some of the videos can also be watched on my Youtube channel.
The back side of the Moon.
59 seconds for 29.5 days (equal to one lunar day) means 2 seconds in the video are equivalent to a day on the Moon.
59 seconds for 29.5 days (equal to one lunar day) means 2 seconds in the video are equivalent to a day on the Moon.
HD-Version of the center of the moon.
3D stereo/anaglyph-version
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