• Education Resources
  • Computational Tools
  • CLSE
  •  

Lunar Surface Flyovers

Foreword by David A. Kring

Image processing capabilities have improved dramatically since the Apollo-era. We can now stitch photographs together and drape them over terrain models to produce 3-dimensional scenes and digitally fly through them. This provides a spectacular view of the lunar surface and provides a new tool for scientists to study the geology of the lunar surface. It also provides a new tool for mission planners who need to select landing sites and design robotic and crew traverses. Below we provide a new atlas of lunar surface flyovers. Some of these are rendered from Lunar Orbiter and Apollo photography. However, camera and imaging systems on a new generation of orbiting spacecraft are quickly enhancing the community's capability to routinely render these flyovers. The first among this new generation of flyovers are provided by JAXA's Kaguya mission. As additional flyovers become available from that and later missions, our atlas of Lunar Surface Flyovers will grow.


Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

Schrodinger Basin

Sampling the Lunar Farside in the South Pole-Aitken's Schrödinger Basin

Moon

Schrödinger Volcanic Vent and Impact Peak Ring

King Crater

King Crater

Tsiolkovsky Central Peak

Tsiolkovsky Central Peak

Mare Moscoviense

Mare Moscoviense
Provided by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Apollo 15 Landing Site

Apollo 15 Landing Site/Hadley Rille

Tycho Crater

Tycho Crater
Provided by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Movie should be viewed using red-blue stereo glasses.

Marius Hills

Marius Hills
Provided by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Aristarchus Crater

Aristarchus Crater

Get the solar system in your inbox.

Sign up for LPI's email newsletters