Regional Planetary Image Facility

The LPI’s Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF) collection includes planetary images in a variety of formats including digital scans, negatives, prints, positive transparencies, and video. We also have collections of press release images, journal articles, books, slide sets, photo atlases, and many planetary globes and models. We have a large collection of technical documents related to the Apollo program.

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Planetary Maps

Planetary Images

Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery

Browse and search by coordinate (latitude, longitude) for images from Lunar Orbiters I, II, III, IV, and V.
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Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon

A reproduced and searchable online version of the classic reference manual by Bowker and Hughes (1971), “Lunar Orbiter Photographic Altas of the Moon”, NASA SP-206. Search for images by coordinate (latitude, longitude) ranges.
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Apollo Surface Panorama Mosaics

A digital library of photographic panoramas that the Apollo astronauts took while exploring the Moon's surface.
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Apollo Image Atlas

A quick-look image atlas that is useful for searching for Apollo images.
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Digital Consolidated Lunar Atlas

A reproduced online version of the classic reference by Kuiper et al. (1967), “Consolidated Lunar Atlas”, University of Arizona Press.
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Lunar Surveyor Images

Browse our collection of scanned maps and press images from the Lunar Surveyor program
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Lunar Ranger Photographs and Documents

Browse our collection of scanned photographs and documentation from the Lunar Ranger program
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Planetary Mission Imagery

Browse offline images and photographs in a variety of formats, including images from Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Clementine, Galileo, Gemini, Lunar Orbiter, Magellan, Mariner, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Pathfinder, Pioneer Venus, Ranger, Skylab, Space Shuttle, Surveyor, Viking, and Voyager
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Pluto and Charon Flyovers

Watch simulated flights over Pluto and Charon created from New Horizons' images.
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Planetary Mission Reports

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Reports

Browse or search the LPI’s online archive of daily status reports about the operation of the ALSEP on the Moon. Additional reports can be found on the NASA Technical Reports Server; data from the ALSEP instruments is archived with the National Space Science Data Center.

Interagency Reports by the Branch of Astrogeology, U.S. Geological Survey

Scanned copies of many USGS Interagency Reports. Additional reports may be available from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center.

Planetary Data

Planetary Feature Databases

Browse and search several feature databases compiled for Callisto, Ganymede, Venus, and Earth’s Moon.
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Planetary Scientific Data

Browse the LPI and USRA’s online collection of scientific products and data.
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Arecibo Radar Observations

Browse radar observations of small solar system bodies from Arecibo Observatory.
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