Walk the landing sites

Where the first people stood

You are standing at Tranquility Base, where people first walked on another world. The ground is the shape a camera in orbit measured, at its true height, and the descent stage stands where it was photographed.

Hadley, under the mountains

The mountain behind the lander rises several kilometres above the flat ground. Turn round to find the long winding channel the astronauts drove to. The gold line is the rover's real track.

The last landing

A valley between high hills, where the last people to stand on the Moon spent three days. The hills you see are the measured hills, and the Earth hangs in the sky where it always does from here.

The far side

The first landing on the side of the Moon that never faces us. From here the Earth is never in the sky. The small rover that came with it has driven away; only the lander is drawn.

Where Opportunity stopped

This is not where Opportunity landed, but where its long drive ended, on the rim of a crater called Endeavour. No measured ground model covers its landing site, so we stand here instead.

Gale crater

Curiosity, where it landed. The great mound to the south is Mount Sharp, which it has been climbing ever since. The haze is the dust that is always in Mars's air.

Jezero crater

Perseverance landed on the floor of a crater that once held a lake. Press "Drive the rover" when the trip is over and you can drive it, much faster than it really goes.

Utopia Planitia

China's rover Zhurong came down on this wide, flat plain. The orbital picture under your feet is the very one that shows the lander and the rover from above.

Everything is drawn where it really is, from the planets’ own orbits (astronomy-engine).