Mount as high as Everest! – Zeeman Mons

Standing tall at 8.8 kilometers, Zeeman Mons on the Moon competes with Earth's Mount Everest. Zeeman Mons rises 8.8 kilometers above the floor of the namesake crater within which it resides. While mountains on Earth take millions of years to form under the slow process of

Glorious Aristarchus

The size of a large city, and one of the brightest features on the Moon, Aristarchus crater is easily visible to the naked eye.

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From Hipparchus to Gaia, the story of finding our place among billions of stars

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't until 1807 when we truly realized just how far away stars really were.

A galore of lava channels on the Moon

At Rimae Prinz.

A wildly irregular crater on the Moon

The slumped walls of Larmor Q crater.

The ancient lava channel near which Apollo 15 astronauts landed

The meandering rille of Hadley.

Lava filled Gassendi crater with buried mountain bases

A candidate landing site for NASA's Apollo 17 mission.

Y-shaped mountains on the Moon

Adorning the crater aptly named King.

A valley cutting through a Moon mountain

The ancient fault of Vallis Alpes.

A huge multi-ring impact basin on the Moon

The outstanding crater of Orientale.

A stretch of volcanic mountains on the Moon

The 361 kilometers wide arc of Montes Carpatus.

Crater on a crater on the Moon

Meet Krieger and its meandering lava channel.