The Terrains

Tycho Crater

The Moon's freshest great crater — terraced walls and a central peak, laser-measured.

FLY IT → · LRO LOLA laser altimetry, 118 m/px

Apollo 15 · Hadley Rille

The valley Scott and Irwin drove — the descent stage still there, pinned.

FLY IT → · LRO NAC stereo DTM, 2 m/px (shown at 2.5 m/px)

Apollo 17 · Taurus-Littrow

The last valley humans walked, massif to massif — Challenger's spot pinned.

FLY IT → · LRO NAC stereo DTM mosaic, 5 m/px (shown at 10 m/px)

Copernicus Crater

The textbook terraced crater — 93 kilometers of collapse, step by step.

FLY IT → · LRO LOLA laser altimetry, 118 m/px

Shackleton Crater

The south pole's shadowed crater, measured by laser in the dark — where Artemis aims.

FLY IT → · LRO LOLA laser altimetry, 118 m/px

Olympus Mons

The tallest volcano in the solar system, measured summit to plain.

FLY IT → · MGS MOLA laser altimetry, 463 m/px

Valles Marineris

Twelve kilometers floor to rim — a canyon that would cross a continent.

FLY IT → · MGS MOLA laser altimetry, 463 m/px (shown at 579 m/px)

Jezero Delta

The river delta Perseverance is reading, meter by meter.

FLY IT → · MRO HiRISE stereo DTM, 1.01 m/px (shown at 3.29 m/px)

Caloris Basin

A 1,500-kilometer impact scar flooded by lava — Mercury's biggest event, in stereo.

FLY IT → · MESSENGER MDIS stereo DEM, 665 m/px (shown at 935 m/px)

Rheasilvia Basin

A mountain rivaling Olympus Mons, at the south pole of an asteroid.

FLY IT → · Dawn framing camera stereo DTM (HAMO), 93 m/px (shown at 244 m/px)

Occator Crater

The crater with the famous bright spots — salt where briny water reached vacuum.

FLY IT → · Dawn framing camera stereo DTM (HAMO), 137 m/px

Sputnik Planitia

Pluto's nitrogen-ice heart, ringed by water-ice mountains — in stereo from one flyby.

FLY IT → · New Horizons stereo DEM, 300 m/px (shown at 521 m/px)