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What Atlas records on the Moon

37 mapped · 2 recorded here without a position · 3 mapped on another body · 100 in its exploration record · 5 planned, not yet flown

• The Moon · celestial body · no mapped position
• Tranquility Base (Apollo 11 landing site) · landing site
• Lunar South Pole Region · region · no mapped position · planned
• Shackleton Crater · impact crater
• Cabeus Crater · impact crater
• Apollo 12 landing site · landing site
• Apollo 14 landing site · landing site
• Apollo 15 landing site · landing site
• Apollo 16 landing site · landing site
• Apollo 17 landing site · landing site
• Luna 2 impact site · impact site
• Luna 9 landing site · landing site
• Luna 13 landing site · landing site
• Luna 16 sample site · sample site
• Luna 17 landing site (Lunokhod 1) · landing site
• Luna 20 sample site · sample site
• Luna 21 landing site (Lunokhod 2) · landing site
• Luna 24 sample site · sample site
• Ranger 7 impact site · impact site
• Ranger 8 impact site · impact site
• Ranger 9 impact site · impact site
• Surveyor 1 landing site · landing site
• Surveyor 3 landing site · landing site
• Surveyor 5 landing site · landing site
• Surveyor 6 landing site · landing site
• Surveyor 7 landing site · landing site
• Chang’e 3 landing site (Yutu) · landing site
• Chang’e 4 landing site (Yutu-2) · landing site
• Chang’e 5 sample site · sample site
• Chang’e 6 sample site · sample site
• Chandrayaan-3 landing site (Shiv Shakti Point) · landing site
• Chandrayaan-2 Vikram impact site · impact site
• SLIM landing site · landing site
• Hakuto-R Mission 1 impact site · impact site
• LCROSS Centaur impact site · impact site
• SMART-1 impact site · impact site
• Beresheet impact site · impact site
• IM-1 Odysseus landing site · landing site
• Blue Ghost Mission 1 landing site · landing site

Places in this story, mapped elsewhere

• John F. Kennedy Space Center · spaceport · mapped on Earth
• Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A · launch site · mapped on Earth
• Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B · launch site · mapped on Earth

Its exploration record

Missions, vehicles, programmes and people — recorded here, and not drawn on this surface, because none of them is a place.

• Apollo Program · spaceflight programme
• Apollo 1 (AS-204) · mission
• Apollo 8 · mission
• Apollo 11 · mission
• Apollo 13 · mission
• Apollo 17 · mission
• Artemis Program · spaceflight programme
• Artemis I · mission
• Artemis II · mission
• Artemis III · mission · planned
• Artemis IV · mission · planned
• Saturn V · launch vehicle
• Space Launch System (SLS) · launch vehicle · planned
• Orion (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle) · spacecraft · planned
• Apollo Lunar Module · spacecraft
• Lunar Water Ice · natural resource
• LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) · mission
• Lunar Gateway · space station
• Neil Armstrong · person
• Soviet Union · country
• Russia · country
• United States · country
• Europe · country
• Japan · country
• China · country
• India · country
• South Korea · country
• Israel · country
• NASA · space agency
• Soviet lunar programme (OKB-1 / Lavochkin) · space agency
• Roscosmos · space agency
• CNSA · space agency
• ISRO · space agency
• JAXA · space agency
• ESA · space agency
• KARI · space agency
• SpaceIL · space company
• ispace · space company
• Intuitive Machines · space company
• Firefly Aerospace · space company
• Astrobotic · space company
• Luna · spaceflight programme
• Ranger · spaceflight programme
• Surveyor · spaceflight programme
• Lunar Orbiter · spaceflight programme
• Chang’e · spaceflight programme
• Chandrayaan · spaceflight programme
• Commercial Lunar Payload Services · spaceflight programme
• Luna 1 · mission
• Luna 2 · mission
• Luna 3 · mission
• Luna 9 · mission
• Luna 10 · mission
• Luna 13 · mission
• Zond 5 · mission
• Luna 16 · mission
• Luna 17 · Lunokhod 1 · mission
• Luna 20 · mission
• Luna 21 · Lunokhod 2 · mission
• Luna 24 · mission
• Luna 25 · mission
• Ranger 7 · mission
• Ranger 8 · mission
• Ranger 9 · mission
• Surveyor 1 · mission
• Surveyor 3 · mission
• Surveyor 5 · mission
• Surveyor 6 · mission
• Surveyor 7 · mission
• Lunar Orbiter 1 · mission
• Apollo 12 · mission
• Apollo 14 · mission
• Apollo 15 · mission
• Apollo 16 · mission
• Clementine · mission
• Lunar Prospector · mission
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter · mission
• GRAIL (Ebb and Flow) · mission
• LADEE · mission
• CAPSTONE · mission
• Peregrine Mission One · mission
• IM-1 Odysseus · mission
• Blue Ghost Mission 1 · mission
• IM-2 Athena · mission
• SMART-1 · mission
• Hiten · mission
• Kaguya (SELENE) · mission
• SLIM · mission
• Hakuto-R Mission 1 · mission
• Chang’e 1 · mission
• Chang’e 2 · mission
• Chang’e 3 · Yutu · mission
• Chang’e 4 · Yutu-2 · mission
• Chang’e 5 · mission
• Chang’e 6 · mission
• Chandrayaan-1 · mission
• Chandrayaan-2 · mission
• Chandrayaan-3 · Vikram and Pragyan · mission
• Danuri (KPLO) · mission
• Beresheet · mission

79 dated records, 1959-01-04 to planned — no earlier than 2028 — the last of them planned rather than flown.

Ways in

• The last crossing →

  Four ports, one week, and a course that ended between two of them — where does the record stop?

• Earth to another body →

  A launch pad in Florida and a plain on the Moon — what does it take for one place to reach another?

• The road that carried more than silk →

  Cities strung between two empires — what moved along them besides trade?

865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead ↗ — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness.

One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified.