NASA's Apollo missions and Artemis program reflect humanity's long obsession with Earth's satellite
Photograph by Jesus Lopez, Nat Geo Image CollectionIn 1609 Thomas Harriot pressed his eye to the end of a tube with a convex lens and a concave eyepiece. That lens magnified the Moon, which was five days past new Moon, bringing details into view that no human eye had ever seen. He sketched what he saw of the crescent Moon, making out the craggy line where sunlight peeked through valleys between mountains and crater tops.
An 18th-century painting depicts Galileo Galilei with Leonardo Donato, the 90th Doge of Venice, and members of the Venetian Senate in 1609 demonstrating how to use his telescope.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.In the years that followed, observer after observer looked through early telescopes to sketch maps of the lunar surface. Those observers named features on the Moon after royal family members, scientists, and Earth’s regions and natural landforms.
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