Seen here are fluid lava flows on the Moon, in the young crater of Pytheas.
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A peak at Hadley
Seen here the 4 km tall and 25 km wide Haldey mountain as captured from orbit by Apollo 15.
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Swirls are a rare lunar surface feature, bright and curvy shapes on the lunar soil. Seen below are a swarm of lunar swirls in the Ingenii crater.
Continue reading “Swirls of Mare Ingenii”The dynamic terrain of Aitken crater
Seen here is the large Aitken crater on the farside of the Moon, hosting a complex array of terrain features.
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On the occasion of Apollo’s 50th anniversary last week, here is a special edition of Moon Monday to learn about several Apollo landing sites.
Continue reading “Stories of Apollo landing sites”Apollo 11 landing site – The Sea of Tranquility (50th anniversary special)
Seen here is the landing site for NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft. On July 20, it will be 50 years since humans first landed on an extraterrestrial object.
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Seen here is the targeted landing region for India’s first ever soft landing Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2. The spacecraft will launch on July 15, 2019.
Continue reading “Chandrayaan-2 landing site in the southern highlands”Facing lava on three sides – Promontorium Heraclides
Much like capes and headlands on Earth face the sea on three sides, “Promontorium Heraclides” is surrounded by lava plains on the Moon!
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Seen here are chains of craters surrounding the incredible Orientale basin.
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Hidden beneath the dark, solidified lava plains lie highly dense material that distort the Moon’s gravity from spherical consistency. Seen here is a gravity map of the Moon.
Continue reading “Massive mascons – Crashing spacecrafts since 1960s!”The crowned crater of Schrödinger
Seen here is the spectacular Schrödinger crater with its crown shaped mountain ring rising high above the lunar surface. ❤
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Here’s a long-running wrinkled ridge on the Moon called Dorsum Zirkel, in the vast lava plains of Mare Imbrium.
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