A LUNAR WORLD TOUR

1 Oceanus Procellarum

This mare is so large that it was deemed an ocean, covering about 4,000,000 square kilometres (1,500,000 square miles).

2 Luna 9

This site marks the first soft landing of an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon, launched by the Soviet space program on 31 January 1966.

3 Surveyor 1

The first American soft Moon landing happened here, launched on 30 May 1966.

4 Copernicus

This crater is well known because it can be easily seen from Earth. It is a younger crater, about 800 million years old, with a prominent system of ejecta rays.

5 Vallis Alpes

This lunar valley bisects a mountain range called the Montes Alpes, and extends 166 kilometres (103 miles).

6 Montes Apenninus

This mountain range is about 600 kilometres (370 miles) long and has peaks up to 5 kilometres (three miles) high.

7 Mare Tranquillitatis

This mare was the landing site for the Apollo 11 spacecraft. It is slightly bluish because it has a high metal content.

8 Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the Moon, on 21 July 1969 as part of NASA’s Apollo program.

9 Tycho

This distinctive crater has ejecta rays visible from Earth during a full Moon, reaching more than 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) from the crater.

10 Schrödinger

This huge crater near the south pole can only be viewed from orbit. It is 312 kilometres (194 miles) in diameter.