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A Long Graben
6.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Graben is a German word meaning ditch or trough. Geologically, graben form by the dropping downward of a linear block between two parallel faults. Terrestrial graben typically occur in regions of extension - where forces pull the surface apart in directions perpendicular to the resulting graben.
Insularum Interlude
5.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Mare Insularum is a name that was given 1976 to a relatively poorly defined region south of the Carpathian Mountains ring of the Imbrium basin. Its an area of mare and small hills (thus the Sea of Isles) that are ejecta from the Imbrium impact.
Threading the Pillars
4.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Gassendi steals the limelight when the Moon is 11 days old, but there are other less prominent features nearby that tell interesting stories. To the northeast of Gassendi at the southern end of Oceanus Procellarum is a very delicate rille with an important connection to Mare Humorum.
Moving Moon
3.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Lunar eclipses offer little in the way of new scientific information, but we are often surprised by their color, and also in the beauty of the way they are photographed. This pleasing photograph of the November 8, 2003 eclipse by Bob Horton has excellent resolution and great color.
Boring (?)
2.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Most images published by LPOD are dramatic views of craters, volcanoes or lunar mountains, but this one is of a pretty bland section of Mare Insularum near the crater Gambart. Is LPOD really so desperate for lunar images? No, but we do need more good ones ASAP!
Apollo Metrics
1.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Yesterday I sent an email saying that the Lunar and Planetary Institute would soon post online images of the Apollo Metric Camera images. "Soon" has come - its today! The Metric camera was one of the two very high resolution cameras added to Apollos 15 to 17 - the other was the Panoramic camera.
Tobacco Lunar Science
30.06.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Public outreach is NASA's term for helping the general public become familiar with space science and NASA's contributions to it. Today, the Internet is the premier tool for broadly disseminating information about space. But these cards demonstrate an earlier effective method to bring the knowledge to the matches, err, the masses.
Fantastic Furnerius
29.06.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
"Fantastic" is probably not an adjective that would have been applied to Furnerius anytime during the last 3 billion years! It is a much modified older crater that has seen better eons. But this is a fantastic telescopic image - better than any in the Consolidated Lunar Atlas or any other I've seen.
LACs and More!
28.06.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Without saying a word, a treasury of lunar maps has appeared online. The Lunar Atlases section of the Lunar & Planetary Institute website has been an invaluable resource for Lunar Orbiter IV, Consolidated Lunar Atlas and Apollo handheld images. On June 24, the good people at LPI added digitized versions of various lunar maps.
An Older Tycho
27.06.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Have you ever set up your telescope when the Moon is about 9 days old and scanning the terminator said, "Must be a great libration, Tycho is pretty far south tonight"? I have, and then I realized that I've been fooled once again by Tycho's look-alike, Moretus.