Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo ... a set of Canadian feet touched down in the Sea of Tranquility first. Although the Eagle ...

Given that lunar craters are important tools for scientists to calculate the age of geological features on other planets with solid surfaces, moon maps like the new one assume greater significance.

Landing site: Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) region in the north ... A spacecraft will circle the moon to remotely map different forms of water on the lunar surface. Type of craft: Orbiter.

It has been 52 years since Apollo 17 lifted off from the Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon. All the Apollo landing sites, starting with Tranquility Base on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility ...

NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps ... moon’s shadow during a solar eclipse on Earth assumed that the moon is a smooth sphere and that all observers were ...

The Sea of Tranquility is home ... evidence on the surface of the Moon suggesting that lunar lava tubes could have existed," Carrer said. Lunar pits, elliptical craters that formed not from ...

Now they just needed to find a landing spot for the lunar module, named Eagle, on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility. The only catch was that as they got closer to the location that NASA’s maps had ...

Now they just needed to find a landing spot for the lunar module, named Eagle, on the moon’s Sea ... maps had depicted as smooth and level, they found themselves staring at an expanse of deep ...

It's located at the Sea of Tranquility ... be some at the moon's south pole, the planned location of NASA's astronaut landings later this decade. Permanently shadowed craters there are believed ...

They’ve found proof of a spacious cave, accessible from the deepest known crater on the moon. Situated in the Sea of Tranquility, only 250 miles ... Topographical map of the lunar cave discovered in ...

Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago, and suspect there are hundreds more that could house future astronauts.

An extract from an USGS 1:24,000 scale map ... of the moon. The descent engine continued to provide braking thrust until about 102 hours, 45 minutes into the mission. Partially piloted manually by ...