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46-Ranger9.jpgApproaching Alphonsus Crater83 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Ranger 9 image of Alphonsus Crater (diameter 108 Km) from a distance of 442 Km, taken about 3 minutes before impact in the upper right portion of the crater. At left is the northeastern edge of Mare Nubium. The crater adjacent to Alphonsus at the bottom is the 39 Km diameter Alpetragius. Davy Crater is at upper left. North is at 12:30. Ranger 9 impacted the Moon on 24 March 1965 at 14:08:20 UT (Ranger 9, A035)".
Location & Time Information
Date/Time (UT): 1965-03-24 T 14:05:18
Distance/Range (km): 442.26
Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -13.443, 004.79 W
Orbit(s): Impact - Hard Landing
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FadingMoon-03.gifFading Sun-Lights... (3)83 visitenessun commento
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APOLLO 15 AS 15-90-12299 HR-1.jpgAS 15-90-12299 - Delisle (HR)83 visitenessun commento
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Moon Panorama - 3.jpgMoon Panorama (4)83 visitenessun commento
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24-Mare Humorum-1.jpgMare Humorum (1)83 visiteThis sequence of images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows an area on the near side of the Moon, at the edge of the Mare Humorum basin.
AMIE obtained these raw images on January, 13th, 2006 from a distance ranging between 1031 and 1107 Km from the surface, with a ground resolution between 93 and 100 mt per pixel.
The imaged area is located at Longitude 45,7º West and Latitude between 30,5º and 24,5º South. The field of view of each single image is about 50 Km.
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Z-102-smart1_crash_location_H.jpgThe "Impact Location" (1)83 visitenessun commento
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The_Moon-Aristarchus_Plateau.jpgAristarchus Plateau: the cradle of TLP's83 visiteCaption NASA:"Anchored in the vast lava flows of the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum lies the Aristarchus Plateau. The bright impact crater at the corner of the plateau is Aristarchus, a young crater 42 Km wide and 3 Km deep. Only slightly smaller, lava flooded Herodotus crater is above and to the left.
A valley (or rille) feature likely carved by rapidly flowing lava or a collapsed lava tunnel, Vallis Schroteri begins just to the right of Herodotus and winds across the plateau for about 160 Km, eventually turning toward the top of the picture.
Aristarchus Plateau itself is like a rectangular island about 200 km across, raised up to 2 kilometers or so above the smooth surface of the lunar Ocean of Storms.
Recorded from a backyard observatory in Buffalo, New York, the contrast of light-colored ejecta around Aristarchus with surrounding dark, smooth, lava flooded surfaces suggests more familiar snowy scenes of planet Earth".MareKromium
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Luna17_Lander.jpgLuna 17 Lander from atop (small)83 visiteAn amazing spacecraft gently settled to the lunar surface on 17 November 1970. It carried the first successful robotic lunar rover -- Lunokhod 1. For the next ten months the rover was driven by operators in the Soviet Union, with the total distance traveled exceeding 10 km. For comparison, in six years of operation the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has traveled about 12 km.
After landing, the rover drove down a ramp onto the lunar surface and tested its eight wheels. The rover was driven by solar power during the day; at night it parked and relied on thermal energy from a polonium-210 radioisotope heater to survive the cold (-150°C).
The intrepid rover sent back valuable data concerning the composition of the regolith (soil), close up views of the local topography, and important engineering measurements of the regolith.
Note: Soviet Robotic Lander Luna 17 still sitting on Mare Imbrium where it delivered the Lunokhod 1 Rover in November 1970. MareKromium
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00-SMART1.jpgSMART-1 and the Moon82 visiteSMART-1's science payload, with a total mass of some 15 Kg, features many innovative instruments and advanced technologies. These are:
- AMIE, a miniaturised HR camera for Lunar Surface imaging;
- SIR, a Near-Infrared Point-Spectrometer for Lunar mineralogy investigation;
- D-CIXS, a very compact X-ray Spectrometer with a new type of detector and micro-collimator which will provide fluorescence spectroscopy and imagery of the Moon's surface elemental composition;
- XSM, an X-ray monitor to support D-CIXS by providing measurements of solar X-ray emission for calibration:
- KaTE, an experiment aimed at demonstrating deep-space telemetry and telecommand communications in the X and Ka-bands;
- RSIS, a Radio-Science Experiment relying on KaTE. It monitors the electric propulsion by means of tracking techniques. In lunar orbit it will, with AMIE, also study the Moon's libration.
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APOLLO 14 AS 14 68-9421.jpgAS 14-68-9421 - Lunar Surface Variety: rocks, hollows, small craters and depressions82 visitenessun commento
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The Moon - Far Side - Galileo.JPGThe "Far-Side" of the Moon, from Galileo82 visitenessun commento
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34-Apollo 11 LS-1888_40L_Hi.jpgThe "Apollo 11 Landing Site"82 visiteCaption ESA originale:"This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the Apollo 11 Landing Site in the Mare Tranquillitatis Region of the Moon.
AMIE obtained the image on 5 February 2006 from a distance of 1764 Km from the surface, with a ground resolution of 159 mt per pixel.
The imaged area is centred at a Long. of 23,9º East, close to the Moon Equator, at 1,7º North Latitude.
The area is close to crater Moltke (outside the field of view of this image) in the Mare Tranquilitatis Region. The arrow shows the Landing Site of Apollo 11, where the first men from Earth set foot on another object in our Solar System, on 20 July 1969. The two prominent craters nearby are named after two of the Apollo 11 Astronauts. The first man on the Moon, Armstrong, has a crater named after him outside the field of this image".
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