Orbital Radar's Lunar Globe is an interactive, real-time 3D map of the Moon. It tracks active lunar orbiters — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), India's Chandrayaan-2, Korea's Danuri (KPLO) and NASA's CAPSTONE — on live positions derived from JPL Horizons ephemeris, plus China's Queqiao-2 relay on a physically modeled orbit. Click any orbiter to see its altitude, velocity, ground track, orbital period and whether it currently has line-of-sight to Earth or is behind the far side.
The globe also maps the lunar surface: Apollo and robotic landing sites (Apollo 11 at Tranquility Base, Apollo 17, Luna 24, Chang'e 4 and Chang'e 6, Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander, and IM-1 Odysseus), impact and crash sites, named maria and craters (Tycho, Copernicus, Aristarchus, the South Pole–Aitken basin), and the permanently shadowed regions and peaks of near-eternal light at the south pole that NASA's Artemis programme is targeting. It renders the real day/night terminator, the Moon's current phase and Earth–Moon distance, live space weather at the Moon, and Earth in the lunar sky.
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Orbital Radar's Moon globe tracks five lunar orbiters: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), India's Chandrayaan-2, Korea's Danuri (KPLO) and NASA's CAPSTONE — four of them on live NASA JPL Horizons ephemeris — plus China's Queqiao-2 relay on a physically modeled orbit. Click any orbiter for its altitude, speed, orbital period and Earth line-of-sight.
The Moon averages about 384,400 km from Earth, ranging from roughly 356,500 km at perigee to 406,700 km at apogee. The globe shows the live Earth–Moon distance and the light-travel time (about 1.3 seconds each way) for the current moment.
Apollo 11 landed at Tranquility Base in Mare Tranquillitatis (about 0.7°N, 23.5°E) in July 1969. The globe marks Tranquility Base along with Apollo 17, Luna 24, Chang'e 4 and 6, Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander and IM-1 Odysseus.
A permanently shadowed region is a crater floor near the lunar poles that never receives direct sunlight, so it can stay below about −170°C and trap water ice for billions of years. Orbital Radar maps south-polar PSRs such as Shackleton, Cabeus and Haworth, which NASA's Artemis programme is targeting.
Yes. The Moon globe is free to explore in any modern web browser, with no account or download required.
Live orbiter positions come from NASA JPL Horizons ephemeris; the lunar surface uses public-domain NASA LRO imagery, and the day/night terminator, phase and Earth–Moon distance are computed for the current moment. Positions update continuously.
Cite this page: Orbital Radar — “Lunar Globe: a live 3D map of the Moon”, https://orbitalradar.com/moon. Live orbiter positions from NASA JPL Horizons; lunar imagery from NASA LRO.
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