This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3 landing sites. This image was released July 9, 2013. These side-by-side images show Surveyor crater as seen by ...

The landing site of the Apollo 16 lunar module 'Orion' is probably the most challenging to find. If you place the crater Theophilus to the left of your eyepiece's field of view, you'll see a ...

The Apollo 14 landing site as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA Launched June 18, the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter braked into an initially elliptical orbit around the moon on June 23.

The first quarter phase of the moon in November is the perfect time to observe the lunar surface features in high relief, and check out some of the Apollo landing sites. Starry Night Software Nov ...

The Apollo 12 landing site lies within the Moon’s huge Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Because this feature covers 812,000 square miles (2.1 million square km), ...

New photos of the Apollo moon landing sites were released today (Sept. 6), showing extraordinary new details about the areas on the lunar surface visited by humans, including tracks left by the ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when ...

This mission was followed only a few months later by Apollo 12 on November 19, 1969, with Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan L. Bean landing in the Ocean of Storms area of the moon, near the 1967 ...

A new bill introduced into the U.S. Congress would establish the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park on the moon. However, the proposal is seen by some as lightning rod legislation ...

Onodera says that in the region near the Apollo 15 landing site in the lunar north, molten magma from deep in the moon intruded toward the surface, causing cracks in the brittle crust as it expanded.