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Cabeus CraterShackleton CraterApollo 12 landing siteApollo 14 landing siteApollo 15 landing siteApollo 16 landing siteApollo 17 landing siteBeresheet impact siteBlue Ghost Mission 1 landing siteChandrayaan-2 Vikram impact siteChandrayaan-3 landing site (Shiv Shakti Point)Chang’e 3 landing site (Yutu)Chang’e 4 landing site (Yutu-2)Chang’e 5 sample siteChang’e 6 sample siteHakuto-R Mission 1 impact siteIM-1 Odysseus landing siteLCROSS Centaur impact siteLuna 13 landing siteLuna 16 sample siteLuna 17 landing site (Lunokhod 1)Luna 20 sample siteLuna 21 landing site (Lunokhod 2)Luna 24 sample siteLuna 2 impact siteLuna 9 landing siteRanger 7 impact siteRanger 8 impact siteRanger 9 impact siteSLIM landing siteSMART-1 impact siteSurveyor 1 landing siteSurveyor 3 landing siteSurveyor 5 landing siteSurveyor 6 landing siteSurveyor 7 landing siteTranquility Base (Apollo 11 landing site)

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

37 objects on the Moon · 242 on another body · This reading plate draws no coastline — the graticule and the marks carry the record here; the interactive view draws the sourced Natural Earth outline. Select a mark to read its record.
TimeAll timeLast 100 yearsBefore 1926Full timeline →
3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

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Mecca (Makkah)

A settlement in the Hijaz on the western Arabian caravan corridor, and the city Muslims hold to be the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the site of the Kaaba, toward which Muslims…

21.4, 39.8 · approximate · pre-7th century CE - present

On the world

  • A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

Connections

  • sacred to Islam — Mecca is the direction of prayer and the destination of the Hajj, and its position on the Hijaz caravan corridor placed the new community on an existing commercial artery from the outset.
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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. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on the Moon

37
point
— A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
soft
— A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.

All located objects · 37

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

Every claim carries its evidence on the record it belongs to. Record-level revision history is not yet kept, and nothing here is generated or inferred — every figure above is counted from the records themselves. About Atlas →