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Mountains of the Moon: Zeeman Mons
The largest mountains on the Moon rival those of the Earth. Here Zeeman mons (informal name) rises more than 7,570 m (24,500 ft, 73.39°S, 213.31°E) above the floor of Zeeman crater, and the flank of Zeeman Y is just visible on the right...
Published on 20 Nov 2017
Every Crater on the Moon (Larger than 5 km)
New work from the LROC team resulted in a map of all detectable craters on the Moon between 5 and 20 km in diameter (red circles). When combined with an existing map of craters larger than 20 km in diameter, the differences in the...
Published on 13 Nov 2017
The History of Volcanism in the Moon's Largest Basin
A view of the Moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole–Aitken basin, so named because it stretches between Aitken crater and the south pole. The orthographic projection here centered on the basin (53°S, 191°E) highlights how much...
Published on 02 Nov 2017
High Resolution Maps of the Moon
A section of Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) Region of Interest (ROI) mosaic of Catena Littrow (22.23°N, 29.61°E) represents one of 12 new Reduced Data Records (RDRs) recently released as part of Volume 31 of the LROC Planetary Data System...
Published on 31 Oct 2017
Probing the Lunar Surface Using Small Impact Craters
A fresh impact crater with finely detailed ejecta patterns. How has this crater changed since it was formed? Can the shape of this crater tell us anything about the surface in which it formed? The crater cavity (centered at 20.870°S,...
Published on 20 Oct 2017
Investigating Newly Discovered Lobate Scarps
Joy scarp (25.28°N, 6.84°E) extends from the lower left to upper right across this scene, and is found northeast of Joy crater (not seen) in a hummocky terrain between Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis. Ejecta from the fresh, 300-m...
Published on 05 Oct 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Tsiolkovskiy Crater Terrace
A portion of the terraces that make up the southeastern wall of Tsiolkovskiy Crater. The "rough and tumble-down" appearance of the wall conveys the dynamic processes involved in impact cratering events of this magnitude...
Published on 11 Aug 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Haldane Crater
A fractured, bright, and fresh crater stands out on the floor of Haldane Crater, a 35 km diameter crater which has an unusual double-rim morphology on its eastern half. Possibly formed from a second, later impact [NASA/GSFC/Arizona...
Published on 04 Aug 2017
'Shaping' Lunar Science with Vector Data
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...
Published on 18 Jul 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Secondary crater in Mare Australe
Secondary crater in Mare Australe. The bright spot to the west is a small, fresh 100 meter impact crater. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Published on 07 Jul 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Mare Shoreline in Apollo Basin
A portion of the southwestern mare "shoreline" in the Apollo basin on the farside. This contact between ancient lava plains and a remnant crater rim shows the lunar surface as a land of contrasts -- of expansive plains and jutting...
Published on 30 Jun 2017
NAC Anaglyph: van den Bos Crater
van den Bos is a small (22 km) floor-fractured crater on the lunar farside. The shallow floor of the crater is crossed with fractures rougly concentric to the crater walls. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Published on 23 Jun 2017
New View of Rare Volcanism on the Moon
The Compton-Belkovich Volcanic Complex central caldera complex was first discovered in LROC images (61.20° N, 100.27° E; WAC mosaic with NAC image M103852760R in the center). Variations in the reflectance values were used to estimate...
Published on 05 Jun 2017
Tycho Limb Shot!
Magnificent oblique view of the eastern side of Tycho's central peak acquired when the Sun was relatively high above the horizon. From the viewpoint of LROC the Sun was behind and a bit to the north, so shadows are mostly hidden, thus...
Published on 27 Apr 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Maunder Central Peak
Maunder Central Peak - created when Maunder crater (55 km in diameter) was formed. The central portion of the crater was initially compressed, then subsequently rebounded to form these large peaks which rise over a kilometer above...
Published on 07 Apr 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Manners Crater
Fresh material (bright streaks) is exposed along the wall of the relatively young Manners crater [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Published on 31 Mar 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Mature 4 km crater in southern Mare Fecunditatis
Mature 4 km crater in southern Mare Fecunditatis. The irregular formation to the southwest is probably a secondary crater from crater Langrenus, 200+ km to the north-northeast [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Published on 24 Mar 2017
NAC Anaglyph: "Bathtub Ring" of Lava
The pit-like Bawa crater (off-center left) is located on the edge of Lacus Solitudinus. The pit is congested with old lava and spiny, razerback ridges. The ridges are composed of debris that slumped from the upslope (western) wall above...
Published on 17 Mar 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Fissures in Bowditch Crater
A complex grouping of fissures in the mare-flooded Bowditch crater that were once likely sites of volcanic eruptions in this area. Bowditch crater is part of the lava-flooded region named Lacus Solitudinus [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State...
Published on 24 Feb 2017
NAC Anaglyph: Atlas Crater Wall
The rough-and-tumble morphology of this crater wall results, at least in part, from large-scale wall instability and failures [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Published on 17 Feb 2017