Selenography

Not to be confused with Selenology.

Selenography is the study of the physical features of the Moon.

Selenography Media

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  The topography of the Moon referenced to a sphere with a radius of 1737.4 kilometers. Data were obtained from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) that was flown on the mission Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The color coded topography is displayed in two Lambert equal area images projected on the near and far side hemispheres.

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  STL 3D model of the Moon with 10× elevation exaggeration rendered with data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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  "Lunar Day," from the book Recreations in Astronomy by H. D. Warren D. D., 1879. Later study showed that the surface features are much more rounded due to a long history of impacts.

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  Map of the Moon by Johannes Hevelius (1647)

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  A study of the Moon from Robert Hooke's Micrographia of 1665

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  Samples of lunar maps in the Selenetopographische Fragmente by Johann Hieronymus Schröter.

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  Map of the Moon from the Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (1881) by Richard Andree