Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Scarp 48 Search Thousands of Thrust Faults! Prominent lobate thrust fault scarp in the Mandel’shtam cluster, one of the thousands discovered in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) images. The fault scarp or cliff is like a stair-step in the lunar landscape formed when the near-surface crust is pushed together, breaks, and is thrust upward along a fault; note the two craters overridden by the fault. Image width 1430 meters, north is towards the top, NAC M103460280LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 14 Feb 2023 Ancient Impact Melt Lobate margin of ancient impact melt flow within a nameless farside crater, 45.84° S, 227.32° E, NAC M1117380495LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 28 Dec 2022 Feature Mosaics: Behind the Seams A seamless mosaic of a portion of Karpinsky crater (91 km diameter, 72.61° N, 166.80°E) seamless mosaic. Scene is 55 km across, NAC images M1309496597L/R, M1309503618L/R, M1309510644L/R, M1309517669L/R, and M1309524696L/R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 16 Mar 2020 Lobate Scarps: The Movie Lobate scarps - like those shown here on the floor of the farside crater d'Alembert - are not large, but they tell us much about how hot the Moon was when it was born and its ongoing thermal evolution. Image width is about four kilometers. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Published on 31 Oct 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 NAC Anaglyph: Humboldt Crater Floor A floor fracture and central peak structure on the floor of Humboldt Crater (207 km diameter) that formed directly after impact. Intrusive volcanic activity likely caused the floor of the crater to lift up and then fracture [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 06 Apr 2018 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 diameter impact crater at center-left covers portions of the lobate scarp. The direction of sunlight is from the east (right), image M177589050LR. [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Published on 05 Oct 2017 NAC Anaglyph: Triesnecker Fractures A graben (a negative relief feature) in Sinus Medii that is part of a complex fracture system named Rimae Triesnecker, which represents deep tectonic deformatoin of the crust [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 22 Sep 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 irregular mare patches (IMPs) and lobate scarps [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 18 Jul 2017 NAC Anaglyph: Aitken Lobate Scarp Lobate scarp in Aitken Crater, on the lunar farside [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 22 Jan 2016 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 1 - 10 of 48 in total