> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://jatan.space/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Explore our Moon’s wild places and wonderful samples | Moon Monday #234 - URL: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-234/ - Published: 2025-07-20T09:45:11.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-13T07:42:49.000Z - Description: A special early edition of Moon Monday for International Moon Day, July 20. - Author: Jatan Mehta - Tags: Moon Monday, Explore Look up at our Moon. You see [deep craters](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-lunar-craters/) and [massive mountains](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-moon-mountains/). If you approach closer, there are [lovely lava channels](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-lunar-lava-channels/) and [weird features](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-weird-lunar-features/). Land and fetch [some samples](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-233/), and it will [keep revealing](https://jatan.space/why-explore-the-moon/) threads of our Moon’s [fiery origin](https://jatan.space/apollo-moon-origin/), its [two-faced evolution](https://jatan.space/the-two-faced-moon/), and the [history of our Solar System](https://jatan.space/solar-system-history-101/). 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](https://internationalmoonday.org/about/) 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 [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/hell-q-lro.jpg)](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-lunar-craters/) [****Gallery: Our Moon’s captivating craters**](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-lunar-craters/) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/moon-mountains.jpg)](https://jatan.space/exploring-moon-mountains/) [****How Moon mountains form instantly**](https://jatan.space/exploring-moon-mountains/) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/tycho-mountain-lro.jpg)](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-moon-mountains/) [****Gallery: Our Moon's marvelous mountains**](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-moon-mountains/) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/rima-ariadaeus.jpg)](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-lunar-lava-channels/) [****Gallery: Our Moon's lovely lava channels**](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-lunar-lava-channels/) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/ina-nasa-lro.jpg)](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-weird-lunar-features/) [****Gallery: Just some weird yet wonderful features on our Moon**](https://jatan.space/gallery-of-weird-lunar-features/) ## Watch and browse the Moon in 3D! [****Watch on YouTube**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9qVw-DlLYQ) **| Learn** [****how 3D lunar images are made**](https://jatan.space/the-moon-in-3d/) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/lroc-quickmap-logo-1-1.png)](https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/) ****Explore our Moon like Google maps with** [****LROC QuickMap**](https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/) **| Browse the** [****fantastic LROC Blog**](http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts) **full of high-resolution images** ## Explore Moon rocks! [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/apollo-16-rock-virtual-microscope.jpg)](https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/collections/apollo) [****Explore Apollo Moon rocks in a virtual microscope**](https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/collections/apollo) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/astromaterials-3d-logo-1-1.png)](https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/astromaterials3d/apollo-lunar.htm) ****View Moon rocks in 3D and dissect them with the** [****Astromaterials Lunar Sample Collection**](https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/astromaterials3d/apollo-lunar.htm) **| Browse the** [****Lunar Sample Compendium**](https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/luna-16-basalt-sample-thin-section-2.jpg)](https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/#lunas) [****Browse Soviet Luna core samples**](https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/#lunas) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/change-5-moon-sample-1.jpg)](https://moon.bao.ac.cn/moonSampleMode/index.html) ****Browse China’s** [****Chang’e 5 and 6 lunar samples**](https://moon.bao.ac.cn/moonSampleMode/index.html) [![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/07/chang-e-6-basalt-sample-under-a-polarizing-microscope-2.jpg)](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-233/) [****Visualize a new Moon based on scientific discoveries by Chang’e 6**](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-233/) --- *Many thanks to* [***Astrolab***](https://astrolab.space) *and* [***Ajay Kothari***](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-kothari-739b0b32/) *for sponsoring this week’s Moon Monday! 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