A Narrated Tour of the Moon

  • Released Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. See some of the sights and learn more about the moon here!

See the narrated tour of the moon here!

For complete transcript, click here.
This video is also available on our YouTube channel.

Wide view of Orientale Basin, one of the largest visible impacts on the moon's surface.

Second view of Orientale Basin.

Fly in to Shackleton Crater, where an artificial light reveals topography that hasn't seen sunlight in billions of years.

Close-up shot of Tycho Crater's central peak as taken by the LROC narrow-angle camera.

Close-up shot of the central boulder in Tycho Crater's central peak. Image taken by the LROC narrow-angle camera.

Wide shot of Mare Serenitatis and the Taurus Littrow valley, where the crew of Apollo 17 landed in December 1972.

Close-up views of the Apollo 17 landing site as taken by the LROC narrow-angle camera.

Wide view of the Compton-Belkovich region.

Close-up view of the Compton-Belkovich region.

Push-in and flyaround of Jackson Crater.

Push-in and flyaround of Tsiolkovsky Crater.

Close-up shot showing changing shadows on Tsiolkovsky Crater.

4.5 minute flyover tour of the moon. Many of the shots for the narrated tour come from this video.

The narrated tour of the moon combined with the Evolution of the Moon animation.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.

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  • Evolution and Tour of the Moon (ID: 2012028)
    Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Brendan Antiochos (NASA)

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