A view of the Moon never seen before the space age, captured from a distance of about 1,000 miles as the astronauts began their trip back to Earth. The image is centered on the boundary between the lunar nearside and the Moon's hidden face. Three lunar seas are visible as dark patches, clockwise from upper left: the Sea of Crises, the Border Sea, and Smyth's Sea. At the lower right are the highlands of the lunar farside. Metric mapping camera black-and-white negative by Kenneth Mattingly, Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972. Photos courtesy NASA; digital scanning and image processing © 1999 Michael Light Studio