Earth and Moon from Juno

Somewhat stunning (understatment!) video made from Juno's low resolution camera during its Earth fly-by back in October:


Thanks to Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy once again...and just to think that every human that has ever lived existed in and no human has even travelled beyond the frames in that video...

Apollo Landings

Amazing pictures from NASA's LRO Moon orbiter of some of the Apollo landing sites - complete with footsteps, remains of the moon lander and moon buggies....

NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites

09.06.11

 

Media briefing materials associated with this story can be found here.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.

For example, Apollo 12's landing site complete with their visit to the Surveyor 3 lander:

and as always, The Register have a report too...

Tycho Crater Mountains

Incredible image from AOPD of the central peaks of Tycho Crater on the Moon taken by the Lunar Recon Orbiter ( NASA,  Wikipedia ).

 The resolution is 1.5m per pixel so there are some spectacular boulders and rock-falls on show.

Lunokhod 2 Found!

Damned cool animation made from real pictures thanks to Nasa:

New Lunar Images and Data Available to the Public

And the image from The Univesity of Western Ontario:

Apollo 12 Footsteps

From Bad Astronomy ...

LRO spots Apollo 12 footsteps 

Nasa and the Moon

More great astonomical stuff from Nasa with the successful crashing of the LCROSS probe into the moon to search for water, lots at Nasa's pages.

And more proof that either science education has serious problems or people are just getting more and more stupid (with a tip of the hat to The Register for pointing out that these people are a serious threat to society).