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081-The Moon from Clem-SouthPole.jpg112 - Polar Areas: View of the South Pole57 visiteMosaic of about 650 Clementine images of the South Pole of the Moon, from 80° South Lat. to the Pole (center). The Near-Side of the Moon is the top half of the image; the bottom half is the Far-Side. The dark region near the Pole indicates an old depression, inside the rim crest of the South Pole-Aitken Basin. Large parts of this area (about 15.000 Km2) are permanently shadowed and bistatic radar results from Clementine indicate that they could contain deposits of water ice.
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082-The Moon from Clem-NorthPole.jpg113 - Polar Areas: Views of the North Pole55 visiteMosaic of about 750 Clementine images of the North Pole of the Moon, from 80° North Lat. to the Pole (center). The Near-Side of the Moon is the bottom half of this mosaic and the top half is on the Far-Side. In contrast to the South Pole (slide #111), the North Pole shows very little area in permanent shadow (only about 500 square-Km). This suggests that any "cold traps" in this Region of the Moon are very restricted and little ice could be stable in this part of the Moon.
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090-The Moon from Clem-KeplerCrater.jpg152 - Kepler Crater56 visitenessun commento
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Antoniadi-UVVis.jpg160 - Antoniadi Crater55 visitenessun commento
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Apollo 11 Landing Site from Clem.jpg211-0 - The Apollo 11 "Landing Site"56 visitenessun commento
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ChantCrater-NIR.jpg171 - Chant Crater56 visitenessun commento
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ChantCrater-UVVIS.jpg170 - Chant Crater57 visitenessun commento
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Clem_insignia.jpg001 - Clementine's "Insignia"62 visitenessun commento
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Copernicus Crater.JPG053 - Copernicus Crater (mosaic)58 visiteMosaic of the lunar crater Copernicus produced using images obtained by the Clementine UV/VIS camera. This 95-km crater, believed to be approximately 800 million years old, is located near the center of the lunar nearside and exhibits prominent rays extending in all directions. The right section of the image is a color composite mosaic of the eastern half of Copernicus. This color mosaic was prepared using images obtained through filters of three different colors chosen to allow small lunar color differences to be mapped in a geologic context. In this image, the color assignments are: red (750/415 nm), green ( 750/950 nm), and blue (415/750 nm). The left section of the image is a mosaic of the same area prepared using frames obtained through a single filter (750 nm). This mosaic is displayed as a mirror image to the color composite to allow easy comparison of geologic features and their color.
Extensive large- and small-scale heterogeneity of materials excavated by this large crater is readily evident from the color composite mosaic. Bright blue tones typically suggest fresh material similar to Apollo 16 rocks and breccias, mottled red-orange tones indicate material similar to Apollo 16 soils, vivid red is associated with deposits of impact melt (seen most prominently in the northwestern part of the crater floor), and green-yellow tones along the southern wall imply a higher abundance of iron-bearing materials.
Impact craters can be used as windows into the interior and this multispectral image of Copernicus provides dramatic new information about how materials are excavated, melted, mixed, and deposited in a major impact event. The extensive heterogeneity around the wall of the crater indicates materials are not intimately mixed in spite of the huge energy involved during crater formation. Similarly, impact melt (target rock melted during the impact event) is not distributed uniformly, but can be seen to be concentrated in large sections of the floor and in small areas along ledges of the walls.
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Copernicus-UVVis.jpg050 - Copernicus55 visitenessun commento
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Earth.JPG300 - The Earth from Clementine57 visiteThis was imaged by the High Resolution Camera at 750 nm on 11 April 1994 during lunar orbit 242. This mosaic was put together from over 70 HR images as the Clementine spacecraft's attitude was adjusted to scan the sensor across the Earth in strips.
The image shows a 2° by 2° field of view and has a resolution of 6 Km from a distance of about 380.000 Km.
Africa and the Middle East are clearly visible on the right, with South and Central America visible on the left.
The Caribbean, Florida and the the Eastern US (mostly under cloud cover) are visible near the top of the image. North is to the upper right.
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Eartshine.JPG024 - Earthshine57 visiteThe Clementine Startracker acquired this image of the Moon glowing from the reflected light of the Earth.
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