Our moon is the fifth largest of the 190+ moons orbiting planets in our solar system.  Earth's only natural satellite is simply called "the Moon" because people didn't know other moons existed until Galileo Galilei discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610.  It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years. The Moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized body collided with Earth.

Moon

SPICE-corrected image locations and searching capabilities using a navigable map, user selectable image constraints, bulk-download and image processing using POW

Planetary Image Locator Tool

Cross-mission and cross-instrument searches for images and spectra from Cassini, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, New Horizons, and the Hubble Space Telescope

Outer Planets Unified Search

Text-based and an interactive map-based search interface for finding and downloading desired orbital observations

Orbital Data Explorer

data_calibration collection for the "CASSINI HIGH RATE DETECTOR" bundle

data_engineering collection for the "CASSINI HIGH RATE DETECTOR" bundle

data_science collection for the "CASSINI HIGH RATE DETECTOR" bundle

document collection for the "CASSINI HIGH RATE DETECTOR" bundle

data_reduced collection for the "LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT" bundle

data_calibrated collection for the "LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT" bundle

data_derived collection for the "LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT" bundle

data_housekeeping collection for the "LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT" bundle

document collection for the "LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT" bundle

context collection for the "LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT" bundle

XML Schema Collection

Collected shape and gravity models and related data for the NEAR targets 433 Eros and 253 Mathilde Data Collection

The NEAR Multi Spectral Imager (MSI) Hand Laid Mosaic and Time Order Sequence Browse Collection

NEAR Collected Target Models Document Collection

TThe NEAR MSI Digital Image Maps (DIM) Derived Data Collection

The NEAR MSI Digital Image Maps (DIM) Derived Data Document Collection

The NEAR MSI Digital Image Maps (DIM) Derived Data Browse Collection

Saturn Small Moon Shape Models V1.0

This archive bundle includes data taken 
        by the Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) instrument aboard the Lunar       
        Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft.  These   
        data are generated by dust impacts on the LDEX detector.  Both reduced
        and calibrated data are included in this bundle.

LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT

This bundle collects all the operational data products produced by the Hayabusa2 NIRS3 instrument.

Hayabusa2 NIRS3 Bundle

The High Rate Detector (HRD) from the   
        University of Chicago is an independent part of the CDA instrument on 
        the Cassini Orbiter that measures the dust flux and particle mass     
        distribution of dust particles hitting the HRD detectors.  This data  
        set includes all data from the HRD through the end of the mission,    
        Sept. 15, 2017.  Please refer to Srama et al. (2004) for a detailed   
        HRD description.

CASSINI HIGH RATE DETECTOR

Digital shape models have been constructed from Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem
(ISS) data for eleven of the small satellites of Saturn and delivered to the
Planetary Data System. These satellites are: Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus,
Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Telesto, Calypso, Helene, and Hyperion. These models
typically have uncertainties well under 0.5 km. They are appropriate for global
geometric, geologic, and geophysical studies, and regional slope and topography
study. They are useful in studying morphologies of only the relatively largest-sized
craters. Studies based on early versions of these shape models are in Thomas et al.,
2013

Collected shape and gravity models and related data for the NEAR targets 433 Eros and 253 Mathilde

NEAR COLLECTED TARGET MODELS

This bundle contains the Mark Robinson Digital Image Map (DIM) products for asteroid 433 Eros, based on optical data from the NEAR MSI instrument.

The NEAR MSI Digital Image Maps (DIM) Derived Data Bundle

SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) was Japan's second lunar probe. It was renamed Kaguya, or Moon Princess, after launch as a result of a public poll. The mission's goal was to orbit the Moon to collect data on the origins and geological evolution of the Moon, to study the lunar surface environment, and to carry out radio science experiments. In addition to the main orbiter, Kaguya, the mission included two small spin-stabilized sub-satellites. These were the Relay Satellite (Rstar) and the VRAD satellite (Vstar). Upon launch, they were renamed Okina and Ouna, which mean "honorable elderly man" and "honorable elderly woman," respectively.

Kaguya Mission

The Apollo 12 was the second mission that allowed humans to walk on the Moon. It consisted of the Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). The CSM took images of the surface and communicated with Earth. The LM carried the Astronauts and Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to the surface.

APOLLO 12

The Apollo 14 was the third mission that allowed humans to walk on the Moon. It consisted of the Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). The CSM took images of the surface and communicated with Earth. The LM carried the Astronauts and Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to the surface.

APOLLO 14

The Apollo 15 was the fourth mission that allowed humans to walk on the Moon. It consisted of the Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). The CSM took images of the surface and communicated with Earth. The LM carried the Astronauts and Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to the surface.

APOLLO 15

The Apollo 16 was the fifth mission that allowed humans to walk on the Moon. It consisted of the Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). The CSM took images of the surface and communicated with Earth. The LM carried the Astronauts and Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to the surface.

APOLLO 16

The Apollo 17 was the sixth mission that allowed humans to walk on the Moon. It consisted of the Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). The CSM took images of the surface and communicated with Earth. The LM carried the Astronauts and Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to the surface.

APOLLO 17

The Chandrayaan-1 was an orbiter and impactor mission to the Moon. It was the first for the Indian Space Research Organisation. It was launched on October 22, 2008. It helped confirmed the presence of water on the Moon.

CHANDRAYAAN-1

The Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE), first in a planned series of technology demonstrations jointly sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) of the DoD and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was launched on 1994. The spacecraft itself was affectionately known as Clementine since, as in the song of the same name, it would be 'lost and gone forever' after completing its short mission.

DEEP SPACE PROGRAM SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

The Galileo was sent to Jupiter to study the planet and its moons. It was delivered to space on Space Shuttle Atlantis on October 18, 1989. It sent an atmospheric probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to study the composition.

GALILEO

Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) consist of two small spacecrafts (GRAIL A [Ebb] and B [Flow]). It was launched on September 10, 2011. It used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. On August 31, 2012, the two spacecrafts started collecting data at a lower altitude.

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND INTERIOR LABORATORY

LCROSS launched as a secondary payload with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009. After trans-lunar injection, LRO separated and performed its mission. The LCROSS Shepherding Spacecraft (SSC) remained attached to the spent Atlas upper stage, called the Centaur. Over 112 days, the Shepherding Spacecraft adjusted the Centaur's course to bring it to an impact within the Cabeus Crater near the South Pole of the moon. It impacted on October 9, 2009.
 
LCROSS used the Centaur as a 2300 kg kinetic impactor with more than 200 times the energy of the Lunar Prospector (LP) impact to excavate more than 250 metric tons of lunar regolith. The resulting ejecta cloud was observed from a number of Lunar-orbital and Earth-based assets, and the LCROSS spacecraft. After releasing the Centaur, the SSC flew toward the impact plume, sending real-time data to characterize the morphology, evolution and composition of the plume with a suite of cameras and spectrometers. The SSC then became a 700 kg impactor itself, providing a second opportunity to study the nature of the Lunar Regolith.

LUNAR CRATER OBSERVATION AND SENSING SATELLITE

The Lunar Prospector (LP) Mission consisted of a spin-stabilized orbiter spacecraft designed to perform continuous mapping of the Moon from a circular polar orbit. The LP spacecraft was launched on January 7, 1998 (UTC). The primary mapping mission began on January 16, 1998 and lasted for one year. During most of the mapping mission, the spacecraft mapped the surface from a 118-minute, circular, polar orbit 100 km above the moon's surface. Starting on December 19, 1998, the spacecraft was maneuvered into a 40 km orbit as a transition into a low altitude extended mission orbit. The transition orbit was used to collect gravity data in order to verify the moon's gravity model in preparation for conducting the extended mission orbit.
 
The extended mission began on January 16, 1999. The objective of the extended mission was to provide higher resolution mapping from a circular, polar orbit averaging 30 km above the moon's surface. The Lunar Prospector mission ended on July 31, 1999 when the spacecraft was intentionally impacted into a crater near the south pole. The impact site was targeted for one of the hydrogen deposits detected by Lunar Prospector's Neutron Spectrometer.

LUNAR PROSPECTOR

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched on June 18, 2009 on an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). The EELV inserted the orbiter into a direct trajectory to the Moon. The orbiter used the on-board propulsion system to enter into lunar orbit. After orbiter commissioning, the orbiter entered the nominal mission orbit of 50 km. Once LRO was in the final mission orbit, the six instruments began to collect measurement data for the mission. Data collected by LRO has been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. 
 
The orbiter carried a secondary payload, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which operated as a separate mission to observe the impact of a spent Centaur rocket released over the Moon's south pole.

LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER

The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) was a satellite. It had optical sensors cover the spectrum from the far ultraviolet to the far infrared. It was also able to identify and track ballistic missiles. It was launched on April 24, 1996. It did take measurements for Solar System objects.

MIDCOURSE SPACE EXPERIMENT

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission to the near-earth asteroid 433 Eros was launched in Feb. 1996 and carried out Eros orbital operations from Feb. 2000 through Feb. 2001.  It acquired the first comprehensive, spatially resolved measurements of the geomorphology, reflectance spectral properties, and shape of an asteroid, and X-ray and gamma-ray spectral measurements of elemental abundances from orbit and the surface. The ambient magnetic field in the vicinity of Eros was also measured.  On the way to Eros, the spacecraft also performed a flyby of the asteroid 253 Mathilde in June 1997, obtaining image data and a mass determination.

NEAR EARTH ASTEROID RENDEZVOUS

Orbiting the ringed planet Saturn and its numerous moons, the Cassini spacecraft was a keystone of exploration of the Saturnian system and the properties of gaseous planets in our solar system. 
A joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency, or ESA, and the Italian Space Agency, Cassini launched in 1997 along with ESA's Huygens probe. The spacecraft contributed to studies of Jupiter for six months in 2000 before reaching its destination, Saturn, in 2004 and starting a string of flybys of Saturn's moons. That same year it released the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan to conduct a study of the moon's atmosphere and surface composition. In its second extended mission, Cassini made the first observations of a complete seasonal period for Saturn and its moons, flew between the rings and descended into the planet's atmosphere.

Cassini-Huygens

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was a robotic mission that, from low lunar orbit, gathered detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.  LADEE was launched in September 2013 and carried out lunar orbital operations for 223 days, concluding when the spacecraft was decommissioned by impact into the moon in April 2014.

Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)

Juno is a spacecraft that was sent to Jupiter. It was launched on August 5, 2011. It will take measurements to help find clues about how the planet formed, has a rocky core, and deep winds.

Title	Published	Start Date	End Date
Other
LADEE LUNAR DUST EXPERIMENT	2015	10/24/2013	4/18/2014

Hayabusa2 NIRS3 Bundle	2021	12/3/2014	Not available

CASSINI HIGH RATE DETECTOR	2006	3/25/1999	9/15/2017

NEAR COLLECTED TARGET MODELS	2026	6/25/1997	2/12/2002

The NEAR MSI Digital Image Maps (DIM) Derived Data Bundle	2026	4/17/1996	6/5/2000

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Saturn Small Moon Shape Models V1.0	2018	Not available	Not available

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