Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Highland 62 Search Soviet Union Lunar Sample Return Missions On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed in the rugged highlands between Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Crisium. The next day a sample return capsule blasted off carrying 55 grams of lunar soil. The Luna 20 descent stage still sits silently on the Moon, clearly visible in LROC NAC image M119482862RE [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 15 Mar 2010 Near the Summit of Malapert Mountain The lunar highlands exhibit rhythmic patterns thought to result from slow, downslope creep of the loose regolith (soil). These subtle patterns are most easily seen when the Sun is low to the horizon. Image is 2400 meters wide, north is to the top [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 22 Feb 2010 Montes Pyrenaeus meets Mare Nectaris A contact between the dark basalt (left) of Mare Nectaris and the lighter anorthosite highlands (right) of Montes Pyrenaeus runs through the Constellation Program region of interest on the western rim of the Nectaris impact basin. Image width is 2.5 km, raw image resolution is 1m/pixel, NAC frame M104248025L [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 28 Jan 2010 Mare Moscoviense Constellation Site A very subtle mare-highlands boundary in Mare Moscoviense on the lunar farside, near the center of the Constellation Program region of interest. The generalized geologic contact between the mare and the highlands has been highlighted (mare to the left, highlands to the right). Astronauts exploring this region could collect key samples from the farside basalts of Mare Moscoviense as well as materials from the surrounding basin massifs. Image width is 1.8 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 04 Jan 2010 Debris flows I Debris flow extending down the southwest wall of Janssen K crater (a highlands crater about 16 km in diameter). Image width is 570 meters (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). Published on 04 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 Bright Boulder Trail High-albedo marks on the lunar surface left by a boulder bouncing down the northeast wall of farside highlands crater Moore F. Image width is 610 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 21 Oct 2009 Asymmetric Ejecta Distinctive asymmetrical ejecta surrounding a 140 meter diameter crater in the lunar highlands. Crater is located on the northeastern rim of the eroded (pre-Nectarian) crater Hommel at -52.9° N and 34.6° E. Image width is 600 meters and north is up, 0.6 m/pixel resolution [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 13 Oct 2009 Ejecta sweeps the surface Ejecta of a fresh crater streams across the the lunar highlands south of Mare Tranquillitatis. Image width is 520 m [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 11 Oct 2009 Where Moscoviense meets the Highlands The edge of Mare Moscoviense. Image width is 1.4 km [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 06 Oct 2009 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 51 - 60 of 62 in total