Colorful topographic map with elevations represented by different colors. Blue indicates low areas, while red and yellow show higher elevations. Numerous craters cover the surface.
Download Image
View full size image

The heights of features in the south polar region and far side of the Moon as mapped by the laser altimeter on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. Darker colors are lower in elevation, and the large blue region in the center was formed by a single large impact soon after the Moon had cooled. This basin, about 2600 km in diameter, is one of the largest in the Solar System.

Source:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT/GSFC

Terms of Use:

Smithsonian Terms of Use