3D moon view · Observational composite
Explore Moon in COSMOS
A global colour mosaic derived from more than 100,000 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images. Close approach uses an observational tile pyramid without invented detail. The link below opens the explorer, flying the camera to Moon with its position set by the archived planetary state.
Measured facts
- Mean radius
- 1,737 kmPublished mean radius stored as renderer geometry.
- Mean diameter
- 3,475 km
- Distance from Earth at the recorded epoch
- 387,439 km · 1.3 seconds light time
- Closest camera approach
- 1,772 km from the body centre (35 km above the mean-radius surface)
What opens when you follow this link
COSMOS opens in the same continuous 3D scene and moves the camera to Moon. Nothing reloads, and the breadcrumb trail stays clickable for the way back outward through the Solar System, the measured stellar catalogue and the Galactic view.
If your browser cannot run WebGL2, this page is still the useful part: it carries the identity, the measured values and the provenance, in text.
Where the full record lives
This page is the share link. The complete data record for Moon — delivered imagery resolution, observation epoch, source licence, processing chain and every disclosed limitation — is on its reference page, which is linked below.
Datasets behind this page
- JPL Horizons planetary state archive (2020–2040)NASA/JPL Horizons · derived-scientific-model · One discrete geometric state vector per object at JD 2461281.5 TDB
- NASA Moon Trek LROC WAC morphology mosaicNASA Solar System Treks / JPL Moon Trek · observational-composite · 303 pixels/degree, approximately 100 m/pixel at the lunar equator
Content updated 2026-09-26. Every value on this page is computed from the shipped datasets; where a source publishes no value, the page says so instead of estimating one.