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APOLLO 15 AS 15-9254.jpgAS 15-9524 - Bright and Big "Streaks"55 visiteThis elliptical crater is 1 Km long with an unusual, winglike pattern of rays.
This ejecta pattern is similar to those around some small experimental impact craters produced by missiles traveling along low-angle trajectories at White Sands Missile Range, N. Mex.
From the shape of the crater and the distribution of the rays, it is difficult to tell whether the meteoroid was traveling from North to South or South to North.
The higher albedo (brightness) of the North wall and the concentration of high albedo ejecta on the North-West and North-East flanks suggest that it traveled from South to North.
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APOLLO 15 AS 15-1541.jpgAS 15-1541 - Archimedes and Aristillus56 visiteThe ejecta blanket and secondary impact craters of the mare-filled crater Archimedes (80 Km in diameter) are visible on the terrain toward the viewer (South) but not on the mare surface to the crater's left and right. Yet at one time ejecta like that to the south must have completely surrounded Archimedes because similar ejecta surrounds craters such as Aristillus (upper right). Thus, the mare lavas, in addition to filling the interior of Archimedes, obviously have covered the eastern and western parts of the ejecta. In turn, ejecta from Archimedes has covered materials of the Imbrium Basin like the rugged hills in the lower left of the picture. These stratigraphic relations prove that time elapsed between formation of the Imbrium basin and its filling by mare-time enough for impacts to create Archimedes, the deeply flooded crater to its right (arrow), and similar "Imbrian-age" craters elsewhere, as was pointed out by Eugene Shoemaker in 1962.
Archimedes has no visible central peak complex. Presumably the complex exists but has been completely inundated by the mare.
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