Caption: A Moon map of the near side of the Moon with NASA and Soviet space program spacecraft landing sites.
Recall the equatorial diameter of the Moon is 3476 km. This sets the scale.
The NASA Surveyor probes and Soviet Luna probes were uncrewed landers.
The 6 Apollo program landings were all crewed as everyone knows. 12 humans have walked on the Moon---but none since 1972!
The map table shows what the arrows mean. A pity NASA didn't bother to enlarge the names of the features.
The darker areas are the maria. Their names are almost legible.
The big rayed crater south of Mare Imbrium is Crater Copernicus. East (in the sky sense) and west in the lunar coordinate sense of Crater Copernicus is a smaller rayed crater Crater Kepler.
The rayed crater Crater Tycho is hard to make out on this map, but Surveyor 7 landed on its rim.
Credit/Permission:
NASA,
before or circa 2003 /
Public domain.
Download site: general site NASA:
Lunar and Planetary Science: The Moon, specific site
Lunar Landing Site Map.
Image link: Itself.
Local file: local link: moon_map_side_near_exploration.html.
File: Moon map file:
moon_map_side_near_exploration.html.
