The Moon
The Moon as mapped by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — every crater, sea, and ray system at your fingertips, foldable in about twenty minutes.
About this globe
Mapped by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been photographing the Moon from ~50 km up since 2009. The dark patches are maria — ancient lava plains — and almost all of them face Earth; fold the globe and the far side is a pale, crater-saturated world we never see.
Look for the bright ray systems splashing out of young craters like Tycho and Copernicus.
Download free — pick your paper size
Print at 100% scale. Cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines, glue the tabs. Your PDF can take up to a minute to prepare — hang tight after clicking.
In the US? Print the A4 file and choose “fit to page” — it scales cleanly onto Letter paper.
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Free for personal use, classrooms, and gifts — not for resale. If you post it on your site or share it online, please credit Folding Globes with a link. Copy-paste blurb:
"The Moon" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/moon · Imagery: NASA LRO / SVS CGI Moon Kit