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the Moon · All Worlds · Explore · All time · 37 of 37 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected

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)
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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LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)

A NASA impact experiment launched on 18 June 2009 aboard an Atlas V alongside the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

No recorded place · 2009-06-18 – 2009-10-09

Connections

  • travelled to LCROSS Centaur impact site — LCROSS reached this position, and the position is published.
  • impacted Cabeus Crater — Cabeus was chosen because orbital neutron data showed one of the strongest hydrogen enhancements near the pole; the LCROSS Centaur was steered into its permanently shadowed floor on 9 October 2009.
  • first directly measured Lunar Water Ice — Spectra of the ejecta plume gave water at 5.6 ± 2.9 per cent by mass — the first direct measurement of water inside a lunar cold trap rather than an inference from remote sensing.
Inspect deeply — evidence & provenance →Read the story — Reaching the Moon →How placeless things relate →

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 →