These images were snapped by the European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft, using its Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment camera. The shot above shows an example of lunar highlands, and the one below shows a 'mare' region that sits near to the highland. A mare, or sea, on the moon is mainly a flat space of land with few craters, and many patches of various shades of grey. The highlands are pock-marked with many craters and rough landscapes. The first image was taken from an altitude of 1112 kilometres; the second from an altitude of 1990 kilometres.

Image Credit: ESA/SMART-1/ Space-X

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