Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Oblique 71 Search South Massif Landslide By lunar standards South Massif is a relatively modest mountain, but with a rich history (geologic and exploration). The massif is about 7000 meters across at the base and 2300 meters tall; M1266925685LR, incidence angle 33°, slew angle 65°, phase angle 104° [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 08 Jun 2018 Hell Q Crater Recent impact craters are some of the most spectacular landforms on the Moon! For example, Hell Q (3.4 kilometers in diameter, 33.0° S, 355.5° E) shows off pristine impact melt that lined the crater walls and pooled in the bottom, now solidified into rock.Ejecta was thrown out several crater radii, and dark impact-melt streamers that formed late in the impact process crossed over the early emplaced ejecta; NAC M1221369684LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 27 May 2018 Hawke Crater Hawke crater, 13.2 km wide, is noticeably tilted because the impactor - an asteroid or a comet - that excavated it struck the sloping inner wall of Grotrian crater. Visible are light-colored rays that attest to the crater's youth, as well as subtle signs of darker impact melt. Image width is about 20 km, -66.61 lat, 128.65 lon. Image number M1258054744. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Published on 03 May 2018 Curiously Fast Degradation of Small Lunar Craters Taurus-Littrow valley, geologic exploration target for Apollo 17 and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera study team led by Dr. Prasun Mahanti. Center latitude 20.15°N, center longitude 30.98°E, image 18 km wide, image M1182232465LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 24 Apr 2018 Montes Carpatus The Montes Carpatus region (16.67°N, 332.93°E) contains numerous examples of volcanic materials. The low albedo (dark) patterns may indicate pyroclastic (explosive) material that erupted over 3 billion years ago. Tobias Mayer G crater (7000 m diameter) is seen in the upper left in this west-to-east view; incidence angle 44°, slew angle 68°, phase angle 36°, NAC M1252131209LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 08 Mar 2018 Luminous Pierazzo Crater The Moon continues to surprise us with its beauty! When did this magnificent crater form? From its pristine state it looks as if it could have formed yesterday, however erosion proceeds slowly on the Moon. NAC M1265532953LR, scene is ~11 km wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.] Published on 13 Feb 2018 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 side of the image. View looking to the west from an altitude of 33 km (21 miles); image M1224507290LR. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Published on 19 Nov 2017 2017 Eclipse as Seen from the Moon Earth as seen from the Moon during the total eclipse on 21 August 2017. The shadow of the Moon is centered over Hopkinsville, Kentucky (18:25:30.386 UTC or 1:25:30 pm Central Daylight Time in Kentucky; E1257979198R, NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). Published on 29 Aug 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 the silica content of these enigmatic rocks. Scene is about 50 km across, north is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 05 Jun 2017 What's Next for LRO? LRO and LROC will continue to explore the Moon during the mission's third extended mission to understand fundamental processes that shape our Solar System. Published on 22 Aug 2016 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 21 - 30 of 71 in total