Moon in 3D: live position and orbit

Earth's only natural satellite. It always shows the same face and stabilises our planet's axial tilt.

Moon is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Moon; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Orbits

Earth

Radius

1 737 km¹

Mass

7.35 × 10²² kg¹

Surface gravity

1.62 m/s²¹

Mean temperature

-20 °C¹

Mean distance from Earth

384 400 km¹

Orbital period

27 days¹

Sidereal rotation

27 days¹

Axial tilt

6.7°¹

Missions

• Apollo 11
• Apollo 12
• Apollo 14
• Apollo 15
• Apollo 16
• Apollo 17
• Galileo
• Deep Space Program Science Experiment
• Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
• Midcourse Space Experiment
• Cassini-Huygens
• Lunar Prospector
• Kaguya
• Chandrayaan-1 Mission
• Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Juno
• Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
• Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
• Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
• Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter
• JUICE
• Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission
• CLPS Task Order 2AB
• CLPS Task Order 2IM
• Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover
• Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1
• Lunar Trailblazer
• CLPS Task Order PRIME-1
• Artemis 2 Mission

Sources

1. NASA NSSDCA, Planetary and Satellite Fact Sheets. read 2026-09-17. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html