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Lunar Orbiter

NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 was the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It photographed potential Apollo landing sites and captured the first picture of Earth taken from the vicinity of the Moon.

An artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Orbiter spacecraft at the Moon.
Spacecraft in orbit above the moon
This image was captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera's (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
The Moon's Hayn crater as seen from NASA's LRO spacecraft.
This is an image of the Reiner Gamma lunar swirl from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Reiner Gamma lunar swirl from LRO
The Atlas-Agena rocket launches Lunar Orbiter 3 on a mission to image the Moon’s surface to determine future Apollo landing...
Rocket launch at night.
A view of the Moon’s surface from Lunar Orbiter 3 cameras. Credits: NASA
View from spacecraft of the lunar surface.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured images of the Moon’s surface on Oct 16, 2022, after flying by the Earth for its...
A close-up image of the Moon's surface, which fades from smooth gray at the left, to craggy craters and black shadow at the right.
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Art Work by Russ Arasmith, Date Unknown.
Art Work by Russ Arasmith, Date Unknown.
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Elevation (left) and shaded relief (right) image of Shackleton, a 21-km-diameter (12.5-mile-diameter) permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south...
Elevation (left) and shaded relief (right) image of Shackleton, a 21-km-diameter (12.5-mile-diameter) permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole. The structure of the crater's interior was revealed by a digital elevation model constructed from over 5 million elevation measurements from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter.