This animation is a brief tour of several prominent features of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" class="extiw" title="en:Moon">Moon</a>'s terrain: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_crater" class="extiw" title="en:Tycho crater">Tycho crater</a>, the south pole, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole-Aitken_basin" class="extiw" title="en:South Pole-Aitken basin">South Pole-Aitken basin</a>. The height of the terrain is <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Color_bar_for_Lunar_topography_(JAXA,_ULCN_and_Tycho_DEM_datasets).png" title="File:Color bar for Lunar topography (JAXA, ULCN and Tycho DEM datasets).png">color-coded</a>, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. The view is match-moved to a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_topography_in_natural_color_(JAXA,_ULCN_and_Tycho_DEM_datasets).ogv" title="File:Lunar topography in natural color (JAXA, ULCN and Tycho DEM datasets).ogv">companion piece</a> showing the Moon in natural colors. The elevation map comprises low-resolution data from a number of sources, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)" class="extiw" title="en:Clementine (spacecraft)">Clementine</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE" class="extiw" title="en:SELENE">JAXA/SELENE</a> spacecraft, combined with high-resolution insets for Tycho and the region near the south pole.
<p>NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center<br>
Scientific Visualization Studio<br></p>
Some elevation data provided by JAXA/SELENE.
2009-03-31
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3582">http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3582</a> (movie and description)</li>
<li>Much higher resolution versions of this movie are available at the above address.</li></ul>