The drawings by Galileo of the Moon in 1610 show craters and mountain ranges but he did not assign names to them. As telescopes improved, revealing finer surface details, several maps appeared ...

The resulting lunar map is constantly evolving. Over time, new names are added while ... of the Railroad Tracks. The Moon’s large basins were once dotted with craters, before volcanic flooding ...

Each splash of color identifies a discrete rock or sediment formation, including craters ... names, descriptions and ages. Different colors on a new geologic map of the moon designate different ...

Click through and discover the eponyms for some of the Moon's most prominent ... to draw a lunar map while giving names to many of the features, named the Langrenus crater after himself, which ...

A Moon map oriented to your telescope’s perspective ... I saw a patch of sunlight grow in a crater whose name I didn’t know — Hypatia, the map told me. The sunrise blossomed on Hypatia ...

the maps of at least some of the moons appear to have mislabelled craters and features. Lakdawalla explained that the map names and features are off by about 180 degrees. A good example of the ...

However, when in 1970 the IAU chose to name different craters in their honour, it picked sites on the “far” side of the Moon, rather than ... included the flight map. I got brushed off by ...

Centuries earlier, in 1651, the Jesuit astronomer Giovani Riccioli was mapping and naming the craters on the moon that astronauts would one day see in person. At the top of his map of the moon ...

As early as 2025, NASA’s astronauts will be back on the moon ... to and from craters ideally shouldn’t be steep, so that they can be navigated by rovers. High-resolution maps of the lunar ...