LUNA 9 made the first soft landing on the moon in 1966 and beamed back the first close-up images of the lunar surface. Yet we still don’t know exactly where it touched down. Award-winning planetary cartographer Philip Stooke tackles this and other mysteries with the help of NASA and Russian archives, along with his own mapping and digital-imaging skills. He also maps the better-known landing sites, crash sites and experiments of human and automatic explorers. The book is a tour de force account of the human race’s exploration of its nearest celestial neighbour.
International Atlas of Lunar Exploration
