FULL MOON

1.25 light-seconds

A familiar sight to us all, the full moon graces the night sky every 29 days. The landscape is a mixture of bright highlands and dark, lava-filled seas, both of which show the scars of large impact craters and rays of ejected material.

Credit: Image made in visible light by Russell Croman.

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