This public domain photo of the moon comes from the NASA photo database. It shows the full moon in great detail, including the Tycho impact basin and darkened basins that are filled with volcanic flows. This image was taken by the Galileo spacecraft during its flight to Jupiter.

This photo was taken by an agent of the United States Government. This image is in the public domain.

392 kilobyte JPG. Hosted at nasa.gov.

1. Camilla Canning
   03.17.10

   This image show cases the moon in all it’s glory. It presents our closest neighbor in space in a beautiful light, filling the frame with it’s presence. The moon is hanging like a beautiful blue sparkling orb-criss crossed with patterns of white and silver defining the lunar landscape. This heavenly body is framed against a black sky, making it’s magnificence stand out even more. The interplay of light and shadow dance across this image. You can identify the craters dimpling and defining the topography of the moon’s surface-defining the landscape. This picture makes me feel like I could reach out and pluck the moon out of this picture and hold it in my hand. It congers up memories of being outside on a summer night and looking up at the moon-hanging in the sky like a big ball, wondering what lay beyond the planet where we live. It also makes me think of space and how intriguing and mysterious it is. Exploring space is truly the last great frontier. Imagining that we have set foot upon this beautiful ball, and that the footprints of our astronauts lay among the craters, the rocks, and the fissures is humbling yet inspiring.

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2. Renuka
   03.19.10

   AMAZING MOON’S CLOSE-UP:
   1.The close shot of the moon is amazing and wonderful..
   2.It looks like a huge ball of diamond.
   3.The shining is really beautiful and this would have been proved that the moon also shines even if we see it close.
   4.On the other way it also looks like a planet which goes around the sun.
   5.The partitions in the moon shows like the continents of our planet earth.
   6.The green colour is like the land form and the white is like the water form.
   7.The dust parts are those which we could even see it from earth.
   5.The moon goes around the earth and the shadow of the earth which falls on moon gives the different shapes to the moon.
   6.The shapes of moon are full moon, half moon, 1/4 moon and the new moon.
   8.On the new moon day the full shadow of the earth falls on the moon so that we could not see the moon on that day.
   9.The new moon to full moon happens in every 15 days.
   10.In moon there is no water and gravitational force.
   11. The view of the full moon is also much similar as viewed from earth too.

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