Interactive lunar globe
Spin a textured globe or drop to a flat mosaic. Every crater, rille and ridge is where NASA put it — WAC imagery over LOLA topography.
NASA LRO · LOLA elevation · browser-native
3D print real moon terrain.
Choose a crater, a landing site, or a patch of nothing at all. LunaScape3D reads real lunar elevation data and hands back a watertight STL and a colour-mapped 3MF — generated entirely in your browser.
Gallery
Community prints
A few favourite moon prints from LunaScape3D makers.
What people make
A piece of the Moon, put to work
Some end up on a desk, some on a wall, some under a squad of miniatures, and some on a keyring. One app makes all of them, from 20 mm to 300 mm.
Desk and shelf pieces
One crater on its own plinth, with the name engraved into the frame. Plato's flooded floor and broken rim catch a desk lamp the way they catch the sun.
Large wall graphics
Print a set of hexagons and hang them as one piece: Gassendi, Plato, Copernicus, Tranquillitatis, Tycho and Clavius, each named on its own frame and grouped into a wall-sized cluster.
D&D and space battles
Hex tiles make a modular battlefield, and crater rims give you cover and high ground for free. Run an adventuring party across the Moon or set up a starfighter dogfight over real terrain.
Keychains and small gifts
Shrink a crater to fit a keyring and add a hanging hole. Pick a place that means something, like the Apollo 11 site or a crater named after someone's favourite scientist, and carry it everywhere.
Classrooms and outreach
Put the Moon on the table. Students can trace a crater chain with a finger and feel the difference between a mare and the highlands, which a photo can't do. It works for touch, not just sight.
100%
browser-based
118 m/px
LOLA source data
STL + 3MF
export formats
$0
to start printing
Features
Everything between the data and the plate
Selection, terrain generation, mesh repair, colour assignment and slicer prep — one pipeline, running client-side.
Ornament or plaque
A solid single-piece tile, ready to hang or mount. Circle, square or hexagon, with a loose or snap-fit frame.
Every printer, not just one brand
A plain STL prints anywhere. Multi-material machines get a 3MF with per-object filament assignments already mapped for Bambu Studio and Orca Slicer.
Nothing leaves your machine
Meshing runs in your browser, on your own hardware. No render queue, no upload, no waiting behind someone else's job.
Engraved frame text
Emboss or engrave a label around the border — a name, a date, or the exact selenographic coordinates of the region, generated for you.
How it works
Three steps, about two minutes
STEP 01
Pick your region
Drag the globe, type coordinates, or jump to a preset — Tycho, Hadley Rille, the Apollo 11 site, or the farside nobody on Earth has ever seen. The selection box is what you print.
STEP 02
Set the specs
Diameter, shape, frame style, piece count, vertical exaggeration. Everything is in millimetres, so what you see is what lands on the bed.
STEP 03
Generate and print
One click builds the mesh locally — terrain and frame already separated, watertight, oriented flat. Download, slice, print. No repair step, no CAD.
STEP 04
Enjoy your model
Print the model, enjoy your creation.
Print quality
Geometry that slices clean the first time
Terrain is a solid body, not a draped surface, so every model prints clean without a repair pass.
- Watertight, manifold meshes — no repair pass
- Models from 20 mm up to 300 mm diameter
- Optional multi-colour 3MF
Coming soon
Next stop: Mars
The same pipeline, pointed at the red planet. Real MOLA elevation, Viking colour mosaics, and terrain on a scale the Moon can't match. It's in final testing and arriving very soon.
- Olympus Mons
- Valles Marineris
- Gale Crater
- Jezero Crater
- Hellas Planitia
Destinations
Start somewhere famous
Presets that jump the globe straight to the coordinates. One click to travel, one to generate.
Settings guide
Slicer settings that hold the detail
Starting points, not gospel — but they get the craters to read.
Layer height
0.12 – 0.16 mm
Below 0.12 mm you gain hours, not detail.
Infill
15% gyroid
10% is enough for most ornaments and plaques.
Top surface
Multi-wall on
Turn off "one wall on top surfaces" — it smears ridges.
Filament
Matte PLA
Hides layer lines. Silk exaggerates the terrain curves.
Pricing
Free to print. Paid to print big.
Standard resolution costs nothing, forever. Pay only when you want the fine mesh or the commercial licence.
Free
$0
Unlimited, no card
Standard-resolution terrain
STL and multi-colour 3MF export
Engraved frame text and coordinates
Models up to 150 mm
Personal use
Start free
Maker · most popular
$5 / month
Cancel any time
Everything in Free
Full-resolution LOLA terrain
Models up to 300 mm
Saved presets in your account
Print for yourself and as gifts
Open LunaScape
Merchant
$25 / month
For shops and market stalls
Everything in Maker
Licence to sell physical prints
Commercial use of photos and video
Priority support
Go Merchant
Digital files are never resold or redistributed on any tier.
Do I need to install anything?
No. LunaScape3D runs in any modern desktop browser with WebGL2. Terrain generation happens on your own machine — nothing is uploaded and nothing is queued.
Is the terrain really NASA data?
Yes — LOLA elevation and WAC imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Height is vertically exaggerated so craters read at print scale, so models are accurate representations rather than survey-grade replicas.
Which printers work?
All of them. Every model exports as a plain STL that slices anywhere. If your printer handles multiple materials, the 3MF export arrives with filament assignments already mapped for Bambu Studio and Orca Slicer.
What do I get for free?
Unlimited standard-resolution models up to 150 mm, exported as STL or multi-colour 3MF, for personal printing. Paid tiers unlock full-resolution terrain, models up to 300 mm, saved presets and the commercial licence.
Do I need an account?
You can explore the globe and preview a model without one. An account is needed to download files, so your library and licence follow you between machines.
Can I sell what I print?
Selling physical prints requires the Merchant tier. Free and Maker cover personal prints and gifts. The digital files themselves can't be resold or redistributed on any tier.
Will you add other worlds?
The Moon is first because the data is the best mapped. Mars, Mercury and Earth terrain use the same pipeline and are next in line.
Pick a crater. Print it tonight.
Open the app in your browser and have a print-ready file before your bed finishes heating.