Impact Craters Made by Grail A and B

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera image shows the impact site of GRAIL A (Ebb spacecraft) before and after the spacecraft's descent to the lunar surface.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera image shows the impact site of the GRAIL B (Flow spacecraft) impact site before and after the spacecraft's descent to the lunar surface.

Image credit: Top: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University; Bottom: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

Note: For more information, see Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell.

North Polar Gravitational Map of the Moon

This is a polar stereographic map of gravity of the north polar region of the moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. The map displays the region from latitude 60 north to the pole. The data was collected during GRAIL's extended mission which took place from August 30 to December 17, 2012. In the image, red corresponds to mass excesses and blue and purple to mass deficiencies.

Map credit: NASA/MIT/JPL/GSFC/GRAIL

Note: For more information, see NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity.

New Image Base for 1:1 Million-Scale Lunar Maps

From the USGS Astrogeology Science Center:

The 1:1 million-scale maps of the Moon in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature now show the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Wide Angle Camera (WAC) global morphologic map as the base. Previous versions of the maps used the USGS shaded relief and color-coded topography and the USGS Lunar Orbiter mosaics as the base. The previous versions are no longer supported; URLs that linked to these versions have been redirected to the current maps with the LROC WAC image base. For more information, see the page that describes these maps in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.