A Narrated Tour of the Moon

Learn how “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” was created using data from OSIRIS-REx.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Spindrift” by Max Cameron Concors; “Unearthing Dark Secrets” by Andrew Joseph Carpenter and Mark Richmond PhillipsWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. It’s hard to imagine what the surface of a dark, distant asteroid might look like, but NASA’s "Tour of Asteroid Bennu" brings us on a journey to see this landscape up close. The video, which was released in October 2020, uses elevation data and high-resolution imagery from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to provide viewers with stunning 3D vistas of Bennu’s rugged terrain. On August 9th and 11th, 2021, “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” will be featured in the SIGGRAPH awards electronic theater. Producer Dan Gallagher and data visualizer Kel Elkins discuss the making of the video, and how data-driven animation is enabling viewers to explore new worlds like Bennu.Learn more about the making of "Tour of Asteroid Bennu."Data provided by: NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/Open University/MDA For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasas-tour-of-asteroid-bennu-selected-for-prestigious-computer-graphics-film-festival/) Related pages

We are going to the Moon, to stay, by 2024. And this is how. And this is how. Credit: NASA We are going to the Moon, to stay, by 2024. And this is how. And this is how. Credit: NASA B-roll of the lander models at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. More information about the campanies is HERE. NASA has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program. Each commercial lander will carry NASA-provided payloads that will conduct science investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to land on the lunar surface by 2024.As part of their submissions, each partner proposed flying specific NASA instruments to the lunar surface. By the end of the summer, NASA will determine which payloads will fly on each flight. The potential payloads include instruments that will conduct new lunar science, pinpoint lander position, measure the lunar radiation environment, assess how lander and astronaut activity affects the Moon, and assist with navigation precision, among other capabilities.The selections are:Astrobotic of Pittsburghhas been awarded $79.5 million and has proposed to fly as many as 14 payloads to Lacus Mortis, a large crater on the near side of the Moon, by July 2021.Intuitive Machines of Houston has been awarded $77 million. The company has proposed to fly as many as five payloads to Oceanus Procellarum, a scientifically intriguing dark spot on the Moon, by July 2021.Orbit Beyond of Edison, New Jersey, has been awarded $97 million and has proposed to fly as many as four payloads to Mare Imbrium, a lava plain in one of the Moon’s craters, by September 2020.The teleconference audio will stream live at: HEREFor more information about NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration plans: CLICK HERE For More InformationSee [https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-selection-of-science-commercial-moon-landing-services-hold-media/](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-selection-of-science-commercial-moon-landing-services-hold-media/) Related pages

The brutal secret of how the moon got the scarred face we know and love. Take a tour of stunning new views of the moon's surface, provided by the Lunar Reconnassaince Orbiter. The young moon had barely formed when the barrage of impacts and eruptions that would forever scar its surface began. Fields of dark rock left by volcanic eruptions, mistaken for huge seas, were named "maria." Some of them make up the Man in the Moon's face. As large moon craters go, the giant bull's-eye called Orientale basin is thought to be young, likely the moon's last major body blow. A lifetime of pummeling by space objects large and small has given the moon its familiar, pockmarked look. The sun beats endlessly on the peaks of the south pole's Shackleton crater, but its cold depths may not have seen light for 2 billion years. Because Tycho crater is young, the 1-mile-tall peaks at its center are still sharp and imposing. For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/vid-tour.html) Related pages