Description
Enjoy hundreds of NASA photographs and illustrations of the Moon that show up-close lunar details, history, exploration, composition, surveys, geography, and its awe-inspiring wonders. This book, The Moon: NASA Images from Space, includes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and other international space explorations. Early images show the very first Apollo missions to the Moon using film in a Hasselblad camera. NASA illustrations explain the Moon’s tidal forces on the Earth’s oceans, seas, and land mass, the Moon’s phases as see from Earth, the lunar geography, and Moon’s composition. This book shows detailed maps of the Moon’s surface: its incredible craters, ancient lava flows, plains, seas, and mountains. Included is speculation about the Moon’s origin and its historical place our solar system. Humanities future plans for lunar exploration and habitation are discussed. Can humans live there, and how? This book is a comprehensively illustrated collection of lunar visuals of over 150 images. SELLING POINTS: Explore the beauty and awe of the Moon. Get close up views of the Moon’s craters, valleys, mountains, and other features. Enjoy new and historical photos taken with film, digital, scientific instruments. colour photographs throughout
