Lunar surface texture

Source: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, CGI Moon Kit, ID 4720
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720/
File: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004700/a004720/lroc_color_2k.jpg
Downloaded: 2026-10-16

Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), with polar data from the
Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA). Visualization: Ernie Wright.
This is the 2025 color map, 2048 x 1024 pixels, centered on lunar longitude 0.

The source is an aesthetic surface map, not a scientific radiometry product.
Elevation Place projects it onto a sphere using the IAU lunar rotational model.
Illumination and optional enhanced dark-surface visibility are computed locally.
The illustration does not simulate eclipses or topographic shadowing and is not
a live photograph. NASA does not endorse this website.

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