An image of the Moon from NASA's "Tour of the Moon" video
Photographer: NASA
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Posted: 07/03/2012
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(EndPlay Staff Reports) - NASA is providing what it called "new and unprecedented" views of the moon via an HD video.
The narrated video offers amazing views of craters, mountains, astronaut trails, and the dark side of the moon of our neighbor that is more than 221,000 miles from Earth.
"Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically," according to the video's information section. "Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do."
The Huffington Post reported that in February, NASA's twin Grail probes took the world's first-ever video footage of the dark side of the moon. The main reason was as an educational project for middle-schoolers.
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