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the Moon · All Worlds · Explore · All time · 37 of 37 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected
Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated
Now · 2026route
Close ✕Indian Ocean maritime trade network
The monsoon-driven sea network linking the East African coast, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the Gujarat and Malabar coasts, Sri Lanka, the Bay of Bengal and the Malay archipelago.
No recorded place · c. 1st millennium BCE - present
Connections · 3 of 6
- is node on of Aksum — Aksum's wealth and its exposure to Christianity both came through Red Sea shipping via Adulis — the religion arrived on the trade route, not ahead of an army.
- is spread along of Hinduism — Sanskrit court culture, temple form and Puranic narrative reached Southeast Asian courts through the same maritime traffic that later carried Islam, several centuries earlier.
- is spread along of Islam — Resident Muslim merchant communities in monsoon ports, not conquering armies, carried Islam to the Swahili coast, Malabar, Gujarat, Sumatra and Java.
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
- Cabeus Crater
- Shackleton Crater
- Apollo 12 landing site
- Apollo 14 landing site
- Apollo 15 landing site
- Apollo 16 landing site
- Apollo 17 landing site
- Beresheet impact site
- Blue Ghost Mission 1 landing site
- Chandrayaan-2 Vikram impact site
- Chandrayaan-3 landing site (Shiv Shakti Point)
- Chang’e 3 landing site (Yutu)
- Chang’e 4 landing site (Yutu-2)
- Chang’e 5 sample site
- Chang’e 6 sample site
- Hakuto-R Mission 1 impact site
- IM-1 Odysseus landing site
- LCROSS Centaur impact site
- Luna 13 landing site
- Luna 16 sample site
- Luna 17 landing site (Lunokhod 1)
- Luna 20 sample site
- Luna 21 landing site (Lunokhod 2)
- Luna 24 sample site
- Luna 2 impact site
- Luna 9 landing site
- Ranger 7 impact site
- Ranger 8 impact site
- Ranger 9 impact site
- SLIM landing site
- SMART-1 impact site
- Surveyor 1 landing site
- Surveyor 3 landing site
- Surveyor 5 landing site
- Surveyor 6 landing site
- Surveyor 7 landing site
- Tranquility Base (Apollo 11 landing site)
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 →