images

Part of the far side of the moon

by

Nasa/USGS/Novapix

Reference

a-lun05-00119

Date

2009-05-22

Mosaic image taken by Clementine spacecraft in 1994. The concentric, circular Orientale basin, 600 miles across, is bottom center; the near side is to the right, the far side to the left. At right is the large, dark Oceanus Procellarum.