Moon Wallpaper | Universe Today

Written by Fraser Cain

Okay, it's time to upgrade your computer's desktop with a really nice Moon wallpaper. Each of these images we've selected should look really nice as your desktop wallpaper. If you want to make an image your wallpaper, click on it to view the higher resolution version. Then right-click on the image and choose "Set as Desktop Background"

Earth and Moon

Here's a cool Moon wallpaper. Well, I guess it's really a wallpaper of the Earth and the Moon, seen together. This isn't a real image, exactly. The images were captured separately by spacecraft and then put together in the same image.

Here's another nice Moon wallpaper. The kind of image that you might see in a small telescope.

Earthrise seen from Kaguya. Image credit: JAXA

This image of the Moon was captured by the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft. It's a recreation of the famous Earthrise image taken by NASA astronauts on board Apollo 8 during their orbit around the Moon. The Earth doesn't really rise, seen from the Moon, since the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth and always presents the same face to our planet.

Apollo 8's famous Earthrise picture. Credit: NASA

And here is that famous Earthrise picture. Doesn't it make you feel small and insignificant to see our entire planet as a little spec in the photograph?

First photo on the Moon. Image credit: NASA

How about this for your Moon wallpaper. This is the first photograph captured from the surface of the Moon after astronaut Neil Armstrong descended down out of the lunar module.

We have written many articles about the Moon for Universe Today. Here's an article about a device that will extract oxygen from Moon rocks, and here's an article about Moon rocks seen bouncing down the surface of the Moon.

You can also get access to thousands of images of the Moon from NASA.

We have recorded an episode of Astronomy Cast all about the Moon. Listen to it here, Episode 113: The Moon.

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