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The Bull's rambles blog links to a Nature article on NASA World Wind's Moon visualization. From the article: "We got our hands on imagery and elevation data from NASA's [1994] Clementine mission. [...] Most of the imagery is at 100-metre resolution, but about 10% is at 20-metre resolution. There are also shaded elevation data, provided by the US Geological Survey, which has different colours for elevation, so that the mares [lunar 'seas' of old lava floods] stand out against higher structures." Here's the WW Moon wiki entry. NASA World Wind was also downloaded over than 10 million times.
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