Tour of the Moon (our One and Only)

A beautiful 1080p tour of our moon. It's so clear and beautiful you'll want to go there yourself. This virtual tour is based on data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Enjoy this "new" Moon and its noteworthy destinations.

Ancient peoples looked at the moon and saw in its patterns of shadow and light the figures of deities or animals.

The Italian scientist, Galileo Galilei, trained his telescope on our celestial companion and saw mountains and valleys much like those on Earth.

Scientists today, operating a fleet of spacecraft, are seeing evidence of past events that shaped the lunar landscape, and traces of water and minerals that may one day support a human presence.

Here's the Mare Orientale, an impact crater nearly 4 billion years old. The color, coded for elevation, highlights a bulls-eye pattern of concentric rings.

Now, let's go down under to the South Pole.

The pole sits within the wide rim of the famed Shackleton Crater. Direct sunlight never reaches the crater floor.

The Lunar Prospector spacecraft detected higher than normal amounts of hydrogen within the crater, which may indicate the presence of water ice.

From here, we travel to the far side of the moon. The South Pole-Aitken Basin is one of the largest and oldest impact features in the solar system. You can see its true size in the elevation data.

We are approaching the Tycho Crater.

Look closely at the mountainous peak in the center of the crater.

That strange boulder near the summit is about 100 meters wide. It might have been left there by an impact.

Now on to the Aristarchus Crater, the product of a relatively recent impact. It sits on a plateau that's the site of many transient lunar phenomena, mysterious shifts in color or light on the surface.

The Sea of Serenity, and to its right the Sea of Tranquility... these dark regions were laid down by vast lava flows.

The Taurus-Littrow Valley is in the highlands to the north. The image is based on a stereoscopic elevation map from Japan's Kaguya spacecraft.

Here, now, is the Apollo 17 landing site courtesy of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. From this vantage, you can see the lander, the rover, and trails left by rover tires and astronauts.

Finally, to the north pole. In the highlands that blanket this region, the sides of myriad craters cast long shadows acros the craggy lunar landscape.

There it is. Our moon. Our one and only.

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[BosakPet]

WOW I really love the music accompaniment in this video! How it changes based on locations, and how it fits everywhere, and how it sounds!

I had to watch this twice, because first time, I wasn't really paying attention to the voice, just images and the music

[acerkiwi]

Brilliant.

[pedrogoldfinger]

I love the moon

[ThePayola123]

When I look at the moon, I see Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann eating one another's muff. They are in a northern forest surrounded by many eager beavers.

[GSxxxRGirl]

Our moon is so beautiful! And it's fun trying to scale certain impacts in my mind. I thought that "boulder" was the size of a small rock. Then he said "100 meters!" lol

[minecreative123]

we have actualy a few smaller moons

[mariodv500]

Muito obrigado por compartilhar o conhecimento.

[pikose78]

I Watched today for the 5th time

[caporalchef4]

@ForeverFlame88 Kent Hovind?! ROFLMFAO!!!

[yanksrulemetssuck27]

This is a great video!

[G00ndamMister]

Beautiful.. Loved it.

[panskeptic]

Hey, what happened to Dick Rodstein? This narrator just reads.

[sweatswithhoody]

Above ^

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[UrbanFury12]

@ambush77 LMAO! When I trip on shrooms, smoke a bowl, then get drunk I start to have thoughts like that too.

[Helge129]

@ambush77 You sir, are delusional. I suggest you check yourself in to the next mental asylum, or at least visit a psychiatrist.

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@ambush77

You sound quite insane.

[ambush77]

@LordSauceness

lol....you're so blind.My reality is perfectly is check heeep..I have a telescope and I see lies.you think it can't be used now..come on..Scientific communities no not all just the leader of these societies paid to keep up the hoax of space travel...you all want so badly to believe we can do this space stuff...you make yourself think it's true..I love space and would want nothing more than for use to be able to explore but we can't if you're so sick of us stop replying ..idiot

[LordSauceness]

@ambush77 *photot shop is great thing for morons who think we went there*

Photoshop wasn't around in 1969. Why don't you get a telescope ( a really big one) and do some research for yourself? You diss all of the world's scientific communities, yet igore the thousand upons thousands of amateur astronomers actively involved in discovering our universe. Frankly, I'm sick to fucking death of conspiracy morons like you that have no grip on reality.

[ianman6]

@ambush77 The only gullible idiot who believes anything he's told is you. You're so dumb that you don't even realize that what you're saying is that every scientist, every physicist and aerospace engineer, every geologist studying the moon, every surveyor of the moon, every observatory and all their staff, all of science is, in fact, fake. Fail.

[ryanpiuma]

@ambush77 The freemasons control the internet too, and they're tracking your every move. They know what you wrote about us... er... I mean "them". They will make a sacrificial example of you. Don't worry though, they'll pay your bills for a year so nobody gets tipped off when you're gone. They'll even feed your lone companion, the iguana you smuggled back from Mexico. Yes! They know about your iguana.

PS: They will send Buzz Aldrin your spleen in a jar to add to his collection.

[ambush77]

@marko3296

yes it was..i thought she would have been better..but i fact she wasn't..oh well

[marko3296]

@ambush77 So just a bad dream than...good

[ambush77]

@marko3296

I left your mom in bed alone...sorry

[marko3296]

@ambush77 and what happened when you woke up?

[ambush77]

photot shop is great thing for morons who think we went there..you all have been told so many times it's true your judgment is clouded..You want to believe so much that we did and can do it..all the pics and footage of spaCE ARE altered. hubble is fake as fake gets..you idiots will beleiev anything the gold ole's boys in Dc will tell you..NASA is run by freemasons idiot morons fucking sheep peaple..get a clue and look at FACTS it's impossible to go tot he moon..ompossible fake landing fake fake

[ambush77]

fake landing...shadows...atmosphere impossible to penetrate with the radiation..vanallen belt cannot be passed..radiation would fy the asntroNOTs..shadow on astrontos face is wrong..the jumping they show is wrong clipped slowed to have speed for effect..gravity were real you would be able to jump a lot higher than they di on the vid..moon landing HOAX...meant to distract from the Vietnam War and worked on all you fools who think we went there fucking dolts..