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Copyright: Lunar Picture of the Day

image by Tony GondolaEvery place on the Moon is someplace, but many areas don’t have a single structural focus. This corner of southwestern Oceanus Procellarum is part of that latter group. The right half shows where the edge of Procellarum snuck around behind Hansteen (with the bright floor) and Billy (lava-filled), and lapped up on [...]

image by Wes HigginsSpaceship Higgins is in lunar orbit again. While some space agencies slowly build rockets or hide their data in vaults, Wes continues to take images of the Moon that reveal new features of the lunar landscape. This panoramic closeup shows Janssen, Fabricius and the southern part of Metius. Janssen’s broad central rille [...]

image by George Tarsoudis, Alexandroupolis, GreeceI can never get too much of the Orientale Basin. Perhaps its because its center is just over the western limb, so seeing it at all is a treat. And looking at it nearly sideways makes it a graphic companion to the vertical view we get of the Imbrium [...]

image by Oscar Canales Moreno, Pinsoro, SpainCan you name more than one crater in this view?For many observers this piece of real estate north of Mare Crisium is vaguely familiar, but probably few if any craters other than Cleomedes can be identified without a map. Burckhardt is the one with the big ears, and north [...]

image by Anthony Ayiomamitis , Athens, Greece This is a nice picture. The sort that a lucky tourist might take from a taverna looking across at the Parthenon. Or so it looks. But Anthony doesn’t take chance snapshots; he plans and calculates and finally captures exactly the image that he conceived. In this case it [...]

images by Kaguya, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; north approximately up.I am impatient - almost every day I check the Kaguya/Selene website to see if any images have been posted from the Japanese spacecraft now orbiting the Moon. Today I was rewarded by a half dozen more views that had been quietly put online. [...]

before image by François Emond, Hautes-Alpes, FRANCE.Stadius should never have been named. There is hardly anything there but a hint of a past presence. Stadius formed on an earlier, lower surface and was later covered by lavas from Sinus Aestuum and/or Mare Insularum. Although only a few discontinuous pieces of its rim remain - the [...]