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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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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The NASA field centre in Pasadena, California, operated under contract by the California Institute of Technology, which built and has continuously flown both Voyagers and which manages the…

34.2, -118.2 · approximate · founded 1936; a NASA centre since 1958

Connections

  • is operated by of NASA Deep Space Network — The Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the network for NASA and allocates its time across every deep-space mission.
  • is operated by of Voyager 1 — JPL built both spacecraft and has flown them continuously since 1977.
  • is operated by of Voyager 2 — The same flight team commands both spacecraft from Pasadena.
Inspect deeply — evidence & provenance →Read the story — Voyager: Still Going →

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

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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 →