Images Featured Sites Quickmap Videos Gigapan Exhibits Exciting New Images from The LROC Team. Total posts 911 Search Malapert Massif Malapert massif (informal name) is thought to be a remnant of the South Pole - Aitken basin rim, which formed more than 4 billion years ago. More recently, this magnificent peak (lower left) was selected as an Artemis 3 candidate landing region. Image is 25 kilometers wide in the center, Narrow Angle Camera M1432398306LR (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). Published on 13 Mar 2023 Three Impact Events Spectacular 4500-meter diameter crater (10.67°S, 225.82°E) formed at the intersection of the rims of Lowell W crater (18-kilometer diameter) and the Orientale basin (750-kilometer diameter). Impact melt and debris spilled from the low point of this not-named crater, 1800-meters downslope from the crater rim high point. East-to-west view, spacecraft altitude 76 kilometers, M1231377442LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 20 Feb 2023 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 Apollo 17 Remains Unchallenged After Fifty Years Fifty years ago, the Apollo 17 crew concluded a series of human exploration missions that remain, like their footsteps, some of the greatest achievements in human history. Apollo 17 handheld image (AS17-134-20382) of astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing just left of the U.S. flag, with the LM, MESA, and LRV in the background [NASA/JSC/Arizona State University]. Published on 10 Dec 2022 Dramatic Contrast The dark rim of Aristarchus crater (23.7°N, 312.5°E) dramatically highlights its bright interior and central peak. There are more than 2700 meters of relief from the rim to the crater floor, and the central peak is 3,000 meters wide (left-to-right) and 400 meters tall. Image acquired from an altitude of 96 kilometers looking east-to-west, 12 kilometers wide in the center, NAC M1259171271LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 01 Dec 2022 Far Flung Ejecta Far-flung ejecta (32.7°N, 99.7°E) from the Giordano Bruno impact event raced across a small mare deposit, leaving bright streaks and clues to the details of crater ray formation. This image was acquired looking west-to-east from an altitude of 107 kilometers; the scene is 7700 meters wide at the center, NAC M1386451451LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 31 Oct 2022 Where is the South Pole? Often hidden in shadows, the south pole (90°S, 0°E) occurs just inside the rim of Shackleton crater (20-kilometer diameter). This spectacular view, aimed at the pole, was acquired on 18 May 2022. The image is 2400 meters wide in the middle of this north-to-south view, M1407524099LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 19 Oct 2022 Silicic Volcanoes on the Moon The silicic volcano Mairan T (41.79°N, 311.61°E) stands over 600 meters tall and in stark albedo contrast to the surrounding dark mare basalts of Oceanus Procellarum. The view is from west-to-east, scene is 6.6 kilometers wide, NAC M1387416559LR [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Published on 11 Oct 2022 Wrinkle Ridges – How Deep Does the Fault Lie? LROC NAC oblique of Montes Recti (right), a range of highlands massifs about 80 km across from west-to-east (west is at the top in this view) near the northern rim of Mare Imbrium. A wrinkle ridge deforms the mare basalts surrounding the range and forks into two segments near where it intersects the massifs. Image M1274273192LR, centered at 48.3° N, 340.3° E. Published on 28 Sep 2022 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 … 92 Next ← Previous Next → Displaying Post 1 - 10 of 911 in total
