Lunar Image of the Week
Lunar Image of the Week
Apollo Image Archive, Arizona State UniversityA handy list for those who want to know which lunar formations are featured week after week (list compiled by Danny Caes).
2007
01-10/22/2007-Introduction
02-11/06/2007-Gagarin
03-11/14/2007-Apollo 15 landing site and environs (the Palus Putredinis/ Hadley region).
04-11/20/2007-Tsiolkovskiy
05-11/27/2007-Apollo 17 landing site and environs (the Taurus-Littrow region).
06-12/04/2007-Timocharis
07-12/11/2007-Paracelsus/Paracelsus P
08-12/18/2007-Luna 24 landing site in Mare Crisium
2008
09-01/15/2008-Apollo 15 path of orbital photographs (movie)
10-01/22/2008-Tsiolkovskiy
11-01/29/2008-Littrow and environs
12-02/05/2008-Mare Smythii
13-02/12/2008-Tsiolkovskiy
14-02/19/2008-Apennine Bench Formation
15-02/26/2008-Dorsa Aldrovandi
16-03/04/2008-Apollo 17 landing site (the Taurus-Littrow region).
17-03/11/2008-Krieger/Van Biesbroeck/Wollaston
18-03/18/2008-Apollo 17 landing site/orange colored glass spherules (the Taurus-Littrow region).
19-03/25/2008-Feuillée/Beer
20-04/01/2008-Delisle/Diophantus
21-04/08/2008-Vallis Schroteri
22-04/15/2008-Peek (future landing site?)
23-04/22/2008-Mare Imbrium (between Diophantus and Euler)
24-04/29/2008-Mare Serenitatis (the Aratus CA region)
25-05/06/2008-Bright ray craterlet west of Gagarin and Isaev
26-05/13/2008-Mare Serenitatis (region at Dawes and Plinius)
27-05/20/2008-Van De Graaff
28-05/27/2008-Apollo 15 path of orbital photographs (movie)
29-06/03/2008-Lambert R
30-06/10/2008-Aratus CA region in Mare Serenitatis
31-06/17/2008-Barkla/Kapteyn region
32-07/01/2008-Delisle/Diophantus/Fedorov/Artsimovich region
33-07/15/2008-Mare Serenitatis (between Banting and Bessel)
34-07/22/2008-*Lunar Highs and Lows* (and moonrocks)
35-07/29/2008-Isaev
36-08/05/2008-Feuillée/Beer (and the region south of the couple)
37-08/12/2008-Langemak
38-08/19/2008-Rimae Fresnel region
39-08/26/2008-Lunar Regolith (first photograph is orbital image AS15-M-2211, second photograph is LEVA-image AS16-109-17801).
40-09/02/2008-Cauchy region
41-09/09/2008-Lunar Lava Tubes (southwest of Mons Argaeus)
42-09/30/2008-Montes Apenninus *The Mighty Apennine Mountain Range*.
43-10/07/2008-Sulpicius Gallus Formation *A Splash of Color* (the reddish-orange colored regions near Sulpicius Gallus).
44-10/28/2008-Messier and Messier A
45-11/04/2008-Brayley G (a remarkable swimming-pool shaped crater!)
46-11/11/2008-Bowditch/Lacus Solitudinis
47-11/18/2008-King
48-11/25/2008-Mendeleev (and Catena Mendeleev)
49-12/02/2008-Catena Mendeleev (note: the second photograph does not show crater Aristarchus! It's crater Euler!)
50-12/09/2008-Ptolemaeus
51-12/16/2008-*Impact! Moonquakes and Tremors*
52-12/23/2008-Apollo 8
53-12/30/2008-Apollo 16 landing site (the Cartesio-Cayley zone).
2009
54-01/13/2009-Menelaus and its rays
55-01/20/2009-Theophilus
56-02/03/2009-Sklodowska
57-02/10/2009-Vallis Capella
58-02/17/2009-Goclenius (the second photograph: Fra Mauro/ Bonpland/ Parry/ Tolansky/ Guericke).
59-02/24/2009-Gaudibert
60-03/03/2009-Ina, the D-shaped collapse feature in Lacus Felicitatis
61-03/10/2009-Letronne
62-03/17/2009-Mare Imbrium lava flows (the Mons La Hire/ Carlini/ Helicon/ Le Verrier/ Promontorium Laplace region, oblique northward looking Apollo 15 Fairchild photograph). P.S.: wonderful to zoom in on Promontorium Laplace at the far distant horizon!
63-03/31/2009-the southeastern part of Mare Serenitatis (and the Taurus-Littrow valley).
64-04/07/2009-the Fra Mauro formation (Fra Mauro/ Bonpland/ Parry, oblique northward looking Apollo 16 Fairchild photograph).
65-04/14/2009-the Descartes/Abulfeda/Catena Abulfeda region (oblique southward looking Apollo 16 Fairchild photograph).
66-04/21/2009-the northwestern part of the Aristarchus Plateau (Montes Agricola/Agricola Straits/Herodotus E).
67-05/04/2009-Papaleksi and the region southeast of it (note the reflected light in some of the small craters!).
68-05/12/2009-the Aristarchus plateau (oblique southward looking photograph)(note that the extreme close up of Aristarchus (on the zoomify image) shows weak reflected light on its shadowed eastern inner slopes!).
69-05/19/2009-area southwest of Fra Mauro/ Bonpland (the eastern part of Mare Cognitum).
70-05/26/2009-the Rima Conon/ Sinus Fidei/ Lacus Felicitatis/ Mare Vaporum region (oblique southward looking Apollo 17 Fairchild photograph).
71-06-23-2009-Maraldi and its surrounding regions (Sinus Amoris, and also Apollo 17's landing site at Taurus-Littrow).
72-07-14-2009-Aitken Crater
