Lunar Data

The following page contains data sets and tools related to lunar missions. The IPDA maintains a glossary of agency acronyms. Links will open in a new tab.

Lunar Missions

Mission Name	Agency*	Data Release State**	Location of Information or Data
Apollo	NASA	1961 – 1975	NASA PDS/GEO
Lunar Orbiters 1-5	NASA	August 1966 – August 1967	NASA GSFC NASA PDS/IMG
Pre-Magellan	NASA	November 1968 – August 1988	NASA PDS/GEO
Clementine	NASA DOE	February 1994 – May 1994	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/IMG
Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)	NASA	September 1996	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/SBN
Lunar Prospector	NASA	January 1998 – July 1999	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/PPI
SMART-1	ESA PSA	September 2003 – September 2006	ESA PSA
Kaguya/Selene	JAXA	December 2007 – June 2009	JAXA NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/IMG DARTS
Chandrayaan-1	ISRO	November 2008 – August 2009	ISRO ISRO/ISSDC ISRO/ISSDC ESA PSA NASA PDS/IMG NASA PDS/GEO
LCROSS	NASA	June 2009 – October 2009	NASA PDS/GEO
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter	NASA	June 2009 – ongoing	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/IMG NASA PDS/PPI
GRAIL	NASA	March 2012 – December 2012	NASA PDS/GEO
LADEE	NASA	November 2013 – April 2014	NASA PDS/ATM
Chandrayaan-2	ISRO	September 2019 – ongoing	ISRO ISRO/ISSDC ISRO/ISSDC
Chandrayaan-3	ISRO	July 2023 – September 2023	ISRO ISRO/ISSDC
Luna-25	Roscosmos, IKI	2024	Roscosmos/IKI
Emirates Lunar Mission/Rashid Rover	MBRSC	No Data / Crashed	MBRSC
Lunar-26 Orbiter	Roscosmos, IKI	2026	Roscosmos/IKI
Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter	KARI	2024	KARI
Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (9 instruments)	ISRO/JAXA	2026 – 2028	ISRO/JAXA
Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (7 instruments)	ISRO/JAXA	2025	ISRO and JAXA
Luna-27	Roscosmos, IKI	2027	Roscosmos/IKI

Non-lunar Missions with Lunar Data

Mission Name	Agency*	Time of Flybys	Location of Information or Data
Mariner 10	NASA	February 5, 1974	NASA PDS/IMG
Galileo	NASA	December 8, 1990	NASA PDS/PPI NASA PDS/IMG
NEAR	NASA	January 23, 1998	NASA PDS/PSI
Cassini	NASA, ESA, PSA, ASI	August 18, 1999	NASA PDS/Rings Website NASA PDS/Rings Data
Hayabusa	JAXA	May 19, 2004	NASA PDS/PSI
MESSENGER	NASA	August 2, 2205	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/IMG NASA PDS/PPI
Rosetta	ESA PSA	March 4, 2005	ESA PSA NASA PDS/SBN
EPOXI	NASA	December 2007, December 2008 and June 2010	NASA PDS/SBN Website NASA PDS/SBN Data
Juno	NASA	October 9, 2013	NASA PDS/ATM
Hayabusa2	JAXA	December 3, 2015 & December 5, 2020	NASA PDS/PSI
NASA Heliophysics Mission	NASA	2018	NASA PDS/PPI

Additional Lunar Data Sets and Tools

Product Name	Agency*	Data Release Status**	Location of Information or Data
LCROSS Analyst’s Notebook	NASA		NASA PDS/GEO
Apollo Analyst’s Notebook	NASA		NASA PDS/GEO
Lunar Orbital Data Explorer	NASA		NASA PDS/GEO
Lunar Spectroscopy	NASA	April 1978 – July 1983	NASA PDS/GEO
Lunar Radar Altimetry	NASA	October 1997	NASA PDS/GEO
70 cm Lunar Radar	NASA	October 2003 – October 2006	NASA PDS/GEO
12.6 cm (S-band) Lunar Radar	NASA	December 2007 – May 2013	NASA PDS/GEO
Lunar Crustal Magnetic Field Map	NASA	2020	NASA PDS/PPI
Lunar Solar Wind Interactions	NASA	2021	NASA PDS/PPI
Lunar Geological Maps	NASA		NASA PDS & USGS
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Map	NASA		NASA/ASU
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ARD	NASA		NASA/ASU
Moon Trek	NASA		NASA/JPL
Kaguya ARD Image Catalog	NASA	December 2007 – November 2009	USGS
Lunar Map Catalog	NASA		NASA/LPI
Navigation and Related Observation Geometry	NASA		NASA PDS/NAIF