During the late 1800s and well into the 1900s it seemed that every book that described the craters, mountains and other features of Earth's moon was titled The Moon . In my mind this came to stand for an encyclopedia-like series of descriptions of features on the lunar surface. In general, more recent books, especially those by professional scientists, describe the processes that formed and modified the Moon, and the surface features themselves are no longer described systematically. But for many lunar obse
Mark Tillotson and Jim Mosher have completed adding basic coordinates, crater diameters, and Elger text using a template created by Jim. Paolo Amoroso collected most of the Clementine orbiter's close-up photographs of IAU-named surface formations. Danny Caes ( not quite petite profile ) has contributed information on orbital Apollo photos showing specific features, peculiar lunar surface formations (observable through telescopes), and subtle colors on the moon's surface. Member of Wikispaces (Moon-Wiki) sin
On July 20th, 2007 (Apollo 11 Day) a collection of photos of 200+ lunar scientists from the immediate post-Apollo period were added - see the Warner Collection link at left. With this the-Moon Wiki expands from documenting the lunar surface to also preserving information about the people who study it. Please contribute additional images and text covering all periods of lunar history from Galileo and Harriot onward. Quality THE MOON - WIKI intends to be a creditable web resource. I have a long professional a