Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts from Volcanism 81 Search Apennine Bench Formation: A Window into Ancient Volcanism LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) 100 m/px mosaic with 6 colorized Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) of the Apennine Bench Formation (centered near 26° N, 356° E - here in Quickmap), an enigmatic light plains unit located on the central lunar nearside, west of the Apennine Mountains and the Apollo 15 landing site at Hadley Rille [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 29 Jun 2020 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 Mysteries of Compton Crater The oblique view of part of the north-central floor of Compton crater (center lat 55.9°, center lon 104.1°) shows floor fractures, the north slopes of its central peaks (center right), thousands of impact craters (some less than a meter wide), and dark floor material produced by ancient volcanic eruptions (top). North is to the left, east is toward the top, and the image spans 40 kilometers from top to bottom. NAC image pair M1251237173LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 10 Apr 2019 The West Side of Plato Crater Western Plato crater (at right) and the geologically complex region west of its rim — part of a controlled and corrected mosaic made up of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images. The late afternoon Sun (incidence angle 77°) casts long shadows, accentuating surface relief. image width is 57 kilometers across the center. NAC image pairs M1188416966LR, M1188423994LR, M1188431022LR, M1188438051LR, and M1188445079LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 18 Jan 2019 Von Kármán Crater: Awaiting A Visitor Von Kármán crater (186 kilometer diameter), a treasure house of geologic landforms! LROC Wide Angle Camera mosaic, five degree latitude and longitude grid [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 02 Jan 2019 Fractured Crater Interior of Komarov crater (24.59°N, 152.25°E; 85 kilometers diameter), near the southern edge of Mare Moscoviense, on the lunar farside. Image 15 km wide across center, LROC NAC M1263901757LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 15 Nov 2018 John Young at South Ray Crater Overhead view of South Ray crater, the most prominent feature at the Apollo 16 Descartes landing site in the central lunar highlands. Astronaut John Young landed Lunar Module Orion north of the crater on 21 April 1972 (UTC). Image is a little less than one kilometer wide and is centered at 9.1493°S, 15.3827°E. Image number M1149402618LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 05 Jul 2018 Another Lunar Enigma Ina (18.66°N, 5.30°E) is one of the most enigmatic landforms on the Moon. First discovered in Apollo-era photographs, then intensely studied with modern observations, its nature is still unknown. The Sun is shining right-to-left, 40 centimeter pixels, width 440 meters. Image: NAC M175246029LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 20 Jun 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 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 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 … 9 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 11 - 20 of 81 in total