His approach involved merging four different Moon phases to create a composite that reveals a detailed topography of the lunar surface, including shadowed regions that are usually difficult to ...

This is the divide between day and night on the moon, and it can be exhibited between phases from the crescent to gibbous phases, bringing out the rough topography of the moon, including shadow ...

The spacecraft created the first global topographic map of the moon and represents a 1990s ethic of “faster, better, cheaper” space exploration. Only two years in development, the probe cost ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...