Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

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Feature Mosaics: Behind the Seams

16 Mar 2020

Karpinskiy Crater — A seamless mosaic of a portion of Karpinsky crater (91 km diameter, 72.61° N, 166.80°E) seamless mosaic. Scene is 55 km across, NAC images M1309496597L/R, M1309503618L/R, M1309510644L/R, M1309517669L/R, and M1309524696L/R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Order from Chaos — Blagg Crater

16 Apr 2019

Blagg crater sits astride a wrinkle ridge. — Blagg crater, named for the British astronomer who helped bring order to lunar naming chaos, is full of surprises. Taken during morning with the Sun shining from the right (east), the image above shows an area of the Moon just 9.5 kilometers wide. LROC NAC image pair M192946338LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Lobate Scarps: The Movie

31 Oct 2018

Lobate scarps - surface expressions of compressional thrust faults - in d'Alembert crater — Lobate scarps - like those shown here on the floor of the farside crater d'Alembert - are not large, but they tell us much about how hot the Moon was when it was born and its ongoing thermal evolution. Image width is about four kilometers. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]

'Shaping' Lunar Science with Vector Data

18 Jul 2017

various colorful shapes overlaid on an orthographic projection of the Moon — Twenty new shapefiles created by the LROC Team are now available! A few of the shapefiles shown here include mare age units, footprints of digital terrain models (DTMs), and the locations of small geologic features such as irregular mare patches (IMPs) and lobate scarps [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

NAC Anaglyph: Dorsa Whiston

12 May 2017

A distinctive wrinkle ridge in Oceanus Procellarum named Dorsa Whiston. Ridges like this one result from substantial compression within portions of the lunar maria [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

NAC Anaglyph: Dorsum Cloos

10 Mar 2017

Dorsum Cloos -- a wrinkle ridge signifying that substantial forces within the rocks have led to folding and faulting in eastern Mare Smythii [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

NAC Anaglyph: Mare Frigoris Wrinkle Ridges

03 Mar 2017

Wrinkle Ridges in Mare Frigoris - Wrinkle ridges are a response to a local mass concentration, while others, as in this case, may be due to global contractional stress [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

NAC Anaglyph: Vitello Ridge

09 Sep 2016

A wrinkle ridge south of Vitello crater, formed by compressional stress that caused the rock to fold and fracture [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

LROC NAC Anaglyph: Wrinkle Ridge near Fontenelle X

24 Jul 2015

A wrinkle in rock, formed well after the lava solidified in northern Mare Frigoris [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Littered Wrinkles

14 Aug 2014

LROC NAC image of wrinkle ridge. — LROC NAC image M1144863959L of portion of a wrinkle ridge found in Mare Nubium. The crest and side of the ridge is lined with high reflectance boulders, likely eroded from the fractured basalts that make up the ridge. Image width is ~3 km, North is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

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