As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) has released a new map of the Moon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of humans landing there. OS has been producing detailed maps of Great Britain for almost 230 years ...

A map dating from 1742 comes from the Atlas Coelestis (atlas of the sky) Old maps of the Moon and stars are being shared to mark 50 years since the first manned lunar landing. Some will feature in ...

Once on the moon, the trio ... which can create detailed 3D maps of the lunar surface. Rather than micromanage the mission, controllers on Earth will give the rovers simple, high-level commands ...

This is the same data that the Indian space agency is already using to create the highest resolution 3D map of the Moon. The data packet will include insights from all eight of the orbiter’s ...