National Geographic has always been at the forefront of lunar mapping ... missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at the time.

Caption This map of the abundance of the element thorium on the moon was made with data from the Lunar Prospector, a space mission launched in 1998, shows that most of this radioactive element ...

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While the Lunar Trailblazer will continually orbit the moon as it charts sources of water from afar ... The collaborative effort of the two instruments will generate detailed maps during ...

A map showing where the March 13-14, 2025, lunar eclipse will be visible. (Image credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio) The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, 2025, will last just over ...

This aims to map sources of water on the moon to shed light on the lunar water cycle and to guide future robotic and human missions. Once in orbit, the spacecraft—weighing 200kg and about the ...