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The Moon-02.jpgThe Moon, in infrared, from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (3)59 visitenessun commento
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The Moon-00.jpgThe Moon, in natural colors, from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (1)60 visitenessun commento
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The Moon-04.jpgThe Moon, in red filter, from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (4)62 visitenessun commento
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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-The Moon.jpgThe North Pole of the Moon67 visiteCaption NASA originale:"This arresting image of the third quarter Moon in the excellent skies above the Pine Crest Farm Observatory, Dell Prairie, Wisconsin, was recorded with a 24" telescope and digital camera on October 19, 2000. Marvelously detailed, especially along the terminator or shadow line between lunar night and day, this cropped version of the full mosaicked image shows the cratered North Polar Region and the broad smooth Mare Imbrium. Notable at the northern edge of the Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) is the 95 Km wide dark crater Plato, while the dramatic straight "cut" to the right of Plato, (toward the terminator) is the Vallis Alpes (Alpine Valley). The long, graceful arc of the lunar Montes Apenninus in the lower portion of the image sweeps Southward along the boundary of the mare toward the left and ends near the bright ray crater Copernicus at the picture's edge. In 1971, Apollo 15 landed near the gap beyond the opposite (northern) end of the Montes Apenninus arc".
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The Moon - North Pole - Galileo.JPGThe North-Pole of the Moon, from Galileo73 visitenessun commento
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B-Tsiolkovsky_3D~0.jpgThe Peak of Tsiolkovsky Crater (3D)96 visitenessun commento
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Moon-SouthernSide.jpgThe Southern Highlands of the Moon (Moretus and Curtius)64 visiteCaption NASA:"The Moon's South Pole is near the top of this sharp telescopic view looking across the Southern Lunar Highlands. Recorded on August 3rd, 2007, from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, planet Earth, the foreshortened perspective heightens the impression of a dense field of craters and makes the craters themselves appear more oval shaped. The prominent crater in the foreground, Moretus, has a diameter of 114 Km and lies just west (left) of the Moon's Central Meridian. For large lunar craters, Moretus is young and features terraced inner walls and a 2,1 Km high, bright central peak, similar in appearance to the more northerly crater Tycho. Just to the right of Moretus is the 95 Km diameter crater Curtius.
Curtius has older, rounded walls marked by smaller, more recent impact craters".MareKromium
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The Moon from Galileo-gal_p37329.jpgThe Western Hemisphere of the Moon from Galileo102 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Galileo color image of the Moon showing the western hemisphere and Orientale Basin. The Orientale Basin is just left of the center of the image, at 20 S, 265 E, and has a diameter of about 1000 Km. The right side of the image is on the Moon's near side and left on the far side. The dark area at upper right is Oceanus Procellarum while below it is the circular Mare Humorum. The dark region at lower left is the South-Pole-Aitken basin. The image was produced from three exposures, through violet, red, and near-IR filters, from roughly 560,000 km. (Galileo, P-37329)".
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Tycho Crater (detail mgnf) - Clem.jpgThe centre of "Tycho Crater" - from Clementine218 visiteUn altra area "famosa" della Luna: il Cratere Tycho, reso famoso anche dal romanzo "2001 - Odissea nello Spazio". Fu in quest'area, infatti, secondo il racconto dello scrittore Inglese Arthur C. Clarke, che venne dapprima registrata l'esistenza di un'anomalia magnetica (chiamata Tycho Anomaly) e quindi, in seguito alle indagini svolte, fu ritrovato il primo - e pi piccolo - Monolito che avrebbe indicato agli Uomini la "Via delle Stelle".
Questa la fantasia. La realt, che pochi davvero conoscono, che nell'area di Tycho, negli anni '70, venne effettivamente riscontrata un'anomalia magnetica relativamente alla quale, per, dopo la sua scoperta, non venne pi divulgata alcuna informazione.
Si tratter dunque di una storia vera o solo una delle tante "Leggende Spaziali"?
Questa immagine, comunque, ci proviene dalla Sonda Clementine.
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ZA-Moon from Clementine.jpgThe whole Moon from Clementine196 visiteVeduta globale della Luna (ottenuta con la tecnica del "fotomosaico"), cos come ripresa dalla Sonda Clementine, usando la fotocamera ad infrarossi.
Un'immagine interessante e, comunque, utile proprio in quanto globale e panoramica.
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Theofilus Crater.jpgTheofilus Crater86 visitenessun commento
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Torricelli Crater-00.jpgTorricelli Crater (1)77 visitenessun commento
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