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2020 February 6 Southern Moonscape Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn Explanation: The Moon’s south pole is near the top of this detailed telescopic view. Looking across the rugged southern lunar highlands it was captured from southern California, planet Earth. At the Moon’s third quarter phase the lunar terminator, the sunset shadow line, i...

2019 November 11 Lunar Craters Langrenus and Petavius Image Credit & Copyright: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau Explanation: The history of the Moon is partly written in its craters. Pictured here is a lunar panorama taken from Earth featuring the large craters Langrenus, toward the left, and Petavius, toward the right. The craters formed in separate impacts...