Exciting new images of the Moon taken by the Jupiter‐bound Galileo spacecraft December 8 and 9 promise to expand understanding of lunar geology. Galileo viewed the Moon from a new perspective, showing for the first time, through spectral techniques, the mineralogical composition of the lunar crust on the far side. The Galileo flyby also revealed the largest impact basin ever seen on the Moon.The mosaic at left was constructed from images that Galileo's Solid‐State Imaging system obtained from a range of 567,000 km after the spacecraft had completed a flyby of Earth en route to Jupiter. The images were taken through violet and near‐infrared filters and overlain digitally on an airbrushed map of the Moon to show how the colors relate to geographic fea