Go On a Grand Tour of the Moon

By jmajor - March 15, 2012 at 7:51 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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To honor the

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's

amazing 1,000 days in science-filled orbit, the LRO team at Goddard Space Flight Center has created a wonderful video tour of the lunar surface like you've never seen it before!

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"Tour of the Moon" takes viewers to several breathtaking locations on the Moon, including Orientale Basin, Shackleton crater, Tycho crater, Aristarchus Plateau, Mare Serenitatis, Compton-Belkovich volcano, Tsiolkovsky crater and more. The fully narrated video is above, and clips from each of the stops on the tour are available in many other formats

here

.

In addition, another video highlighting the dramatic evolution of the Moon was released today... you can view the full narrated version in 2D and stereoscopic 3D

here

.

iPad owners can also download the

NASA Viz app

to see this and other NASA stories, updated twice a week.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center