Apr 16, 2024, 09:44 AM IST

10 stunning images of Moon by NASA

Pravrajya Suruchi

NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth's Moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97.

AS11-40-5878 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil.

During the total solar eclipse, the Sun’s corona, only visible during the total eclipse, is shown as a crown of white flares from the surface.

Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the lunar surface.

Lunar Orbiter 2 oblique northward view towards Copernicus crater on the Moon shows crater wall slumping caused by soil liquefaction following the impact that formed the crater. 

AS17-146-22294 (13 Dec. 1972) - Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed working beside a huge boulder at Station 6.

This composite image of the moon using Clementine data from 1994 is the view we are most likely to see when the moon is full. 

Apollo Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity 

Source: NASA