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 Feb 4 2010, 07:05 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
(very crudely! hah!) stitched together some screengrabs from a wander across this rather fascinating image...
"Impact Melt Flow NE of Byrgius A Crater" http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M102573276L
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Feb 4 2010, 10:32 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 551 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Now that is astonishing - it must be one of the freshest non-bombardment features on the moon? There's hardly a crater on it... it looks Hawaii.
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Feb 5 2010, 04:57 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Speaking of which, I can't recall if any "fresh" natural lunar craters have been spotted yet. Have any of the orbiters found any clearly new craters since orbital surveys were started?
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Feb 5 2010, 06:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
I suppose you are talking about natural craters, and not those that were created by the various pieces of hardware that were crashed on the Moon on purpose by humans.
It would mean comparing Lunar Orbiter and Apollo metrics with LRO or Kaguya images. Maybe we can try to find this crater in LROC images. |
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Feb 5 2010, 06:59 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10172 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That comparison will be done, but it hasn't been done (or reported on) yet - we may get some news at LPSC.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Feb 5 2010, 11:05 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Charbob,
Thanks for that link! I went ahead and took their GIF animation and stacked it to try to locate the strike.
I stacked all 19 frames. My best estimate of where to look is -24.84, -19.79 according to Google Earth in Moon mode. It was hard because the curvature of the moon was difficult to handle between the GIF and Google Earth. I imagine you imagesmiths here can really goto town on it with Celestia etc.  I posted a couple of LRO requests at http://target.lroc.asu.edu/output/lroc/lroc_page.html I didn't see any pending request for the exact area I had selected, although I did see some green markers nearby. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Feb 5 2010, 11:13 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
One thing that might affect recent crater detection is that the 'background noise' of impacts on the Moon is much higher than that of Mars: very few indigenous surface modification mechanisms with considerably less regional influence that just that of Mars' minimal atmosphere.
Still, LRO should theoretically find a few, esp. if there's to be a series of extended missions. I wonder what effect the Earth has on the modern lunar cratering rate; we're kind of the Jupiter-wannabe in the inner solar system, after all. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 22 2010, 02:14 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10172 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This isn't LROC, but we're in a lull in LROC data release while the ASU website is down. So instead, here are a couple of recent releases from the Mini-RF imaging radar:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/..._Herodotus.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/...dley_Rille.html It's a very nice instrument. I'm looking forward to seeing the full resolution data from the LCROSS site and other areas like that - Lunar Prospector too. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Feb 25 2010, 02:09 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10172 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The LROC website is still down, though it should be fixed very soon. Meanwhile people might find this new gallery of LRO releases (mostly LROC but including others as well) useful.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult..._archive_1.html There is also a bit of raw Diviner data here: http://www.diviner.ucla.edu/data.html Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 2 2010, 08:18 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Mar 2 2010, 09:06 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10172 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
They showed another one at LPSC, in Mare Tranquillitatis, where the sun reached the bottom in a small area. I think it was about 100 m across and 100 m deep. Not released yet.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jun 23 2010, 08:54 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10172 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jun 24 2010, 03:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 30-July 09 Member No.: 4887 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 23 2010, 08:54 PM)  Phil, Do you have any overlay maps generated for the south pole region yet? We seem to have enough images, but at least for me, my computer/Photoshop doesn't have enough memory (at resolution) to assemble more than 4. James |
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Jun 24 2010, 03:48 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10172 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
No, not yet, and I wasn't planning to make one, hoping it would just magically appear instead.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jun 24 2010, 05:09 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 30-July 09 Member No.: 4887 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 24 2010, 03:48 PM) No, not yet, and I wasn't planning to make one, hoping it would just magically appear instead. Phil Probably USGS will do one eventually. But I am surprised some go-getter hasn't done it yet. I liked the one you did from Clementine images! |
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