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Explore our Moon!

A curated page of resources for all Earthlings to explore our cosmic neighbor, and learn about its fundamental importance to science and technology.

Jatan Mehta

20 Jul 2023 — 5 min read

Our Moon is a unique place to answer fundamental questions about our Solar System and also help enable sustained human presence in space. Over the last two to three years, I’ve been writing accessible stories about the Moon’s said value for as broad an audience as I can. I’ve placed all that work together in context on this curated Moon page, along with several external resources, to provide a good entry point for people from all backgrounds to learn about our Moon and its specific themes, and evangelize its continued exploration. I hope you like my labor of lunar love.

– Jatan Mehta

Note: You may click on any of the images to open its respective link too, not just in the text.

Whitepaper: Why sustain Moon exploration

Every mission to the Moon, ever 🌗

Water on the Moon

**Explainer: What are permanently shadowed regions on the Moon?**

Apollo

Curated Apollo stories

Experience Apollo in real time

Upcoming missions

**The bevy of rovers heading for the Moon**

**Past mistakes to avoid in our grand return to the Moon this decade**

**Lunar Trailblazer, NASA’s Moon water mapper**

**The importance of India signing the US-led Artemis Accords**

**Moon Monday** **– Follow global developments in lunar exploration & science**

Lunar science & exploration

**Exploring the marvel that are mountains on the Moon**

**How Chandrayaan 3 made its historic touchdown on our Moon**

**ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution Moon map**

**KPLO, South Korea’s first Moon mission**

**How we got to know the Moon’s gravity is lumpy**

**The Moon’s potential for radio astronomy and Chang’e 4**

**Chang’e 5 landing site: Near the volcanic complex of Rümker**

**Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the new Moon race**

**The time NASA figured out that our Moon is cratered all the way down**

ESA's Library of Lunar Science

Take a visual tour of our Moon ✨

**Views from Apollo** | **Apollo landing sites from orbit**

**View Moon rocks in 3D and dissect them with the** **Astromaterials Lunar Sample Collection** **| See Apollo rocks in a** **Virtual Microscope**

**Luna Sights** **– Browse a world of** **craters**, **mountains**, **lava channels** **and** **more**!

**From NASA’s LRO team: Explore our Moon like Google maps with** **LROC QuickMap** **| Browse the** **fantastic LROC Blog** **full of high-resolution images**

**China’s** **Chang’e lunar sample database**

**Experience** **Apollo in real time** **| Browse the** **Lunar Sample Compendium**

**Pre-Apollo: Lunar photographs from** **Lunar Orbiter**, **Ranger** **and** **Surveyor**

Our Moon as inspiration

Kids in South Korea and a Moon mission

**Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis**

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Explore our Moon!

Jatan Mehta

Water on the Moon

Apollo

Upcoming missions

Lunar science & exploration

Take a visual tour of our Moon ✨

Our Moon as inspiration

Fascinated by the Moon?

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