Lunar Image of the Week

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Lunar Image of the Week

Apollo Image Archive, Arizona State University

A 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