Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Impact Melt 129 Search Forked Impact Melt Flows at Farside Crater Impact melt flow split into two distinct segments. The source crater is 2.5 km to the south in a region of the farside highlands ENE of Mare Moscoviense. Image width is 1.3 km, and the pixel width is 1.25 m, NAC Image M112902715L, illumination is from the right [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 22 Jun 2010 In an instant! Boulders and impact melt on the interior wall of a recent 5 km (3 mile) diameter crater. The rim of the crater is near the top of the image, downhill is towards the bottom of the image [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 12 May 2010 Riccioli Crater: Cracked, Melted, and Draped High-resolution LROC view of part of the floor of Riccioli Crater, near the center of the Constellation region of interest. The view is centered on the boundary between a spur of the crater's central peak materials (lower right half of the image) and volcanic lava flow deposits (upper left half). The central peak materials are rougher and show a faint pattern of lines running NE-SW, suggesting that this terrain, like much of the rest of the crater, was scoured by ejecta from the younger Orientale impact basin to the southwest. Part of NAC frame M114444141LE, image width is 500 m and north is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 04 Feb 2010 Out of the Shadows: Impact Melt Flow at Byrgius A Crater Spectacularly preserved viscous flow on the NE rim of Byrgius A (19 km diameter) crater. This flow has a form similar to lava flows on the Earth - however it formed as a result of an asteroid or comet slamming into the Moon at hyper-velocity (>16 km/second). So much energy was released in the impact that solid rock was melted and thrown out of the crater where it flowed down the crater flanks (M102573276L, image width 810 m) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 02 Feb 2010 King Crater's Unusual Melt Pond A Constellation Program Region of Interest near the northeast edge of the unusually large melt pond adjacent to the lunar far side crater King. The boundary between the dark, coherent impact melt rock at the lower left of the image and the bright, pulverized ejecta blanket to the upper right is clearly visible in the floor of a smaller crater that formed at the boundary between these two units. Image width is 1.3 km, pixel width is 1.29 m. Subset of NAC frame M106088433R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 26 Jan 2010 Impact Melt Flows on Giordano Bruno Frozen impact melt flows on the ejecta blanket of the young impact crater Giordano Bruno (22 km diameter). The image is about 600 m across and the flows are about 50-100 m wide (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). Published on 15 Dec 2009 More Impact Melt! Frozen impact melt flows on the floor of Moore F, a farside highlands crater. Image width 600 m, 0.61 m/pixel, NAC image M110383422LE [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 30 Oct 2009 Epigenes A A plethora of boulders surrounds braided flows of impact melt along the inside wall of crater Epigenes A. As the melt moves toward the crater floor (direction indicated by white arrow), the flow buries and moves boulders. Epigenes A is a 18 km diameter crater located at 66.9°N and 0.3°W on the rim of crater W. Bond. The NAC image is 540 meters wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 23 Oct 2009 Necho Crater Cracks form in the impact melt sheet on the floor of Necho Crater. Image width is 1.04 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 21 Aug 2009 Prev 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 121 - 129 of 129 in total