I have already written in the past about a few software and websites that allow for exploring the night sky and stars nearby. Today I’m going to focus on a specific celestial object, the closest to us: our Moon. As it happens, there is a lot now available for free to give users a satisfactory lunar experience (in addition to pure cartography. See this).
The simplest one is certainly Google Moon, one of the features that can be activated from Google Earth. But there’s more than that, and more sophisticated.
One is certainly 3D Moon. “The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team recently posted this anaglyph of a Wide Angle Camera (WAC) mosaic of the lunar nearside taken at low-Sun conditions.” And the results are quite amazing (but remember to use 3D glasses).
Another good one is 3D Moon Map, which allow a view of the lunar landscape with regions, mountains, canyons, craters -available here.
And if you want a virtual tour of the Moon, try this from NASA Goddard. It is absolutely mindblowing:
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