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13-Billy Crater.jpgBilly Crater (HR)77 visiteCrater Billy, located at 50,1° West and 13,8° South on the Lunar Surface at the southern edge of Oceanus Procellarum, has a diameter of 46 Km and is up to 1,3 Km deep.
Billy is filled with dark mare material and is one of the darkest spots on the Lunar Surface. The crater is deemed to be of age class 5 - indicating an ancient crater [in this case at least 3,2 BY old] and filled, or partially filled with lava.
The image represents a composite made from two raw images (i.e. no flat field or other corrections have been applied) of the region taken one orbit apart.
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18-imageL,142.jpgMouchez Crater90 visiteOriginal caption:"This image shows an area of the Moon featuring the Mouchez crater near to lunar zero longitude".
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17-smart20050125a.jpgBrianchon and Pascal67 visiteOriginal caption:"This area of the lunar surface shows the area of the Moon around two large craters. The largest visible in this image is called Brianchon (middle left) and is situated at 75° North Lunar Latitude and 86° West Lunar Longitude. The second largest in this image is called Pascal (middle bottom), at 74° North Lunar Latitude and 70° West Lunar Longitude".
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11-Rima Hadley.jpgRima Hadley105 visiteCaption ESA originale:"Hadley Rille is the sinuous depression running across this image.
Beneath it are the 1 to 2 Km high Apennine mountains.
The large crater in the center of the image is the 30 Km diameter "Hadley C".
Location: The feature is centred at: 25,0° N and 3,0° E
Naming: In honour of the English scientist John Hadley who built telescopes in the eighteenth century".
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10-Glusko Crater.jpgGlushko Crater103 visiteThis image, taken by the Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows Glushko impact crater on the Moon. AMIE obtained this image from a distance of about 1600 Km, with a resolution of 150 mt per pixel. The field of view of this image is 80 Km.
The crater is located at 8,4° North and 77,6° West and has a diameter of 43 Km. The crater is attached to the western rim of Olbers crater was previously designated 'Olbers A' before being renamed in honour of Valentin Petrovitch Glushko, a Russian rocket scientist, by the IAU. It is very close to the western limb as seen from Earth.
This crater possesses a relatively high albedo and is the focus of a prominent ray system that extends in all directions across the nearby surface. Very clear impact features indicate that it is very young, unusual for this size of crater (compared to the 800-million year old Copernicus crater). It is possible to see a sharp impact wall and rim, unaffected by erosion (by later impacts). In the inner part of the rim, terraces and wrinkles correspond to collapsed material.
Signatures of ejecta include a blanket surrounding the crater, but also fine radial rays. For this size of crater, the ejecta layer does not seem thick enough to swamp nearby features. In the centre of the crater, there is a rough surface, in morphological terms somewhere in between the smooth ‘bowl’ shape seen in smaller craters, and the defined central peaks in craters larger than 60 kilometres.
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00-Closing-in-on-theMoon410.jpgThe Moon, from 600.000 and 60.000 Km!96 visiteLa Luna: non ci siamo dimenticati della Luna, anzi! Da oggi, 26 Aprile 2005, inizieremo a raccontarVi la "Luna Dimenticata" (o quasi...) attraverso le immagini che ci arrivano dalla Sonda ESA SMART-1.
Individueremo nuove "Singolarità"?
Incontreremo nuovi enigmi?
La Luna è davvero (e solo) "...del padiglion del ciel, la Gran Frittata..."?!?
Staremo a vedere...
Caption ESA originale."These 2 images show the Moon as seen by SMART-1 during the approach phase. The image on the left was taken on 28 October 2004, at a distance of about 600.000 Km from the Moon, when the spacecraft was in its last orbit around the Earth. The image on the right was taken on 12 November 2004, about 15 days later, at a distance of about 60.000 Km. At that time, the Moon was facing the Earth with its unlit side (new Moon).
The slightly illuminated part at the top of the Moon (right image) shows a 'slice' of the Moon's far side at about the latitude of the Lunar North Pole. The North Pole far side is seen for the first time by a European spacecraft, and only for the second time in the history of lunar exploration".
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Z-099-Lunar Impact-SMART-1.jpgThe Impact Sequence57 visiteCaption ESA originale:"Analysis of images obtained at the CFHT by Christian Veillet have revealed a plume of debris thrown up when SMART-1 impacted the Lunar Surface.
The observations were made with the WIRCam wide-field infrared camera with 10s exposure time through an H2 narrow-band filter at 2122 nanometers with a 32 nanometers bandwidth.
Each image is approximately 2'x 2', equating to 200x200 Km".
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Z-102-smart1_crash_location_H.jpgThe "Impact Location" (1)83 visitenessun commento
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65-smart-1_data1002887_007_H.jpgCraters and Highlands79 visitenessun commento
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64-smart-1_data1002887_015_H.jpgOld Craters in Mare Tranquillitatis58 visitenessun commento
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63-smart-1_data1002887_024_H.jpgHeavily cratered Lunar Region56 visitenessun commento
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54-st124520_smart-1_moon_H.jpgBright Impact Crater61 visiteCaption ESA originale:"Screen shot showing a remarkable impact crater (bright circle at top right) and the elongated shapes of ejected material extending radially outward.
Animation sequence captured from SMART-1 star tracker on 1 September 2006, 600 Km above the Moon's surface".
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