Explore our Moon’s wild places and wonderful samples | Moon Monday #234
A special early edition of Moon Monday for International Moon Day, July 20.
Look up at our Moon. You see deep craters and massive mountains. If you approach closer, there are lovely lava channels and weird features. Land and fetch some samples, and it will keep revealing threads of our Moon’s fiery origin, its two-faced evolution, and the history of our Solar System.
We can’t all launch ourselves to Luna to admire its beauty and depth up close. But we can do it virtually. And so below is a set of curated galleries for you to visually explore our cosmic companion’s wild places and wonderful samples, with explainer links and resources. There’s even a video to see lunar places in 3D! Celebrate the International Moon Day from anywhere in the world—because we all see the same Moon.
Let us not just look up at our Moon but look up to it.
Note: You can click the images to explore each gallery or visual collection.
(Since this is visual browsing page, image credits are provided in the links.)
Wild geological places on our Moon
Watch and browse the Moon in 3D!
Explore Moon rocks!
Many thanks to Astrolab and Ajay Kothari for sponsoring this week’s Moon Monday! If you too appreciate my efforts to inform and educate people worldwide on lunar exploration, for free and without ads, kindly support my independent writing:
Note: NASA’s Astromaterials 3D lunar sample viewer and the Lunar Sample Compendium have been offline during the week of publishing otherwise they would’ve been included too.