BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lunar probe’s amazing new images

Maybe now we’ll get a look at those mysterious moon structures that whackjob Richard Hoagland used to go on about.

The European-built Smart-1 spacecraft has sent back its first close-up images of the Moon, showing the cratered landscape in glorious detail.

Smart-1 entered its initial lunar orbit on 15 November 2004 and has spent the two months since spiralling ever closer to the Moon and testing instruments.