The Kaguya lunar orbiter sends this new view of Plato, a 110-kilometer-wide crater filled with lava at the northern edge of Mare Imbrium, the “Sea of Rains.”

Two of the three missions now active at Earth’s moon have recently released new images.

The Moon is silent no longer, thanks to JAXA’s ‘Moonbell’ project.

India’s Chandrayaan lunar orbiter is carrying an instrument provided by NASA that will map the minerals on the Moon in high resolution.

This new map shows topographic features on the far side of the moon in unprecedented detail.