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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-21 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Ejecta from Van de Graaff Crater
PIA13520:
Ejecta from Van de Graaff Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-16 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
 Lunar Radiometer
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Diviner Global Composition
PIA13391:
Diviner Global Composition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-15 Earth Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The western hemisphere of our home planet Earth. North (upper left), Central, and South America (lower right) were nicely free of clouds when NASA's LRO pointed home on 9 August 2010 to acquire this beautiful view.
PIA13519:
Americas from the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-14 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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New Views of Lunar Pits
PIA13518:
New Views of Lunar Pits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-10 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Color of the Moon
PIA13517:
Color of the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-08 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Moon seen from the East
PIA13516:
Moon seen from the East
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-07 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Natural Bridge on the Moon
PIA13515:
Natural Bridge on the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-02 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Necho's Jumbled Floor
PIA13514:
Necho's Jumbled Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-09-01 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Impact Melt at Necho Crater
PIA13513:
Impact Melt at Necho Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-31 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Necho's Terraces
PIA13512:
Necho's Terraces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-26 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Hummocky Terrain
PIA13511:
Hummocky Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-25 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Central Peak/Mare Boundary
PIA13510:
Central Peak/Mare Boundary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-24 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Fractures in the mare of Tsiolkovskiy Crater
PIA13509:
Fractures in the mare of Tsiolkovskiy Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-10 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Volcanoes in Lacus Mortis
PIA13507:
Volcanoes in Lacus Mortis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-05 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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A Path not Taken
PIA13506:
A Path not Taken
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-04 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Concentric Crater
PIA13505:
Concentric Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-03 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Remnants of the Imbrium Impact
PIA13504:
Remnants of the Imbrium Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-29 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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A Molten Flood
PIA13503:
A Molten Flood
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-28 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Not your Average Complex Crater
PIA13502:
Not your Average Complex Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-20 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Up from the Depths
PIA13498:
Up from the Depths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-14 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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How Common are Mare Pit Craters?
PIA13497:
How Common are Mare Pit Craters?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-13 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The Moon's Largest Impact Basin
PIA13496:
The Moon's Largest Impact Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-08 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Apollo 16, Footsteps Under High Sun
PIA13247:
Apollo 16, Footsteps Under High Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-06 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Linné Crater
PIA13246:
Linné Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-02 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Wrinkle Ridge in Oceanus Procellarum
PIA13245:
Wrinkle Ridge in Oceanus Procellarum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-29 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Reiner Gamma
PIA13244:
Reiner Gamma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-24 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The Earth from the Moon
PIA13227:
The Earth from the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-22 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Forked Impact Melt Flows at Farside Crater
PIA13226:
Forked Impact Melt Flows at Farside Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-17 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Orientale Basin
PIA13225:
Orientale Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-16 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Mare Ingenii may be best known for its prominent lunar swirls, which are high albedo surface features associated with magnetic anomalies.
PIA13224:
Depths of Mare Ingenii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-15 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Lichtenberg crater is of Eratosthenian age, located in western Oceanus Procellarum. It is named after George C. Lichtenberg, a German professor of experimental physics (16th century).
PIA13223:
Lichtenberg Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-10 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Window to the Farside Mantle
PIA13195:
Window to the Farside Mantle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-09 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Hunting for Ancient Lunar Impact Basins
PIA13194:
Hunting for Ancient Lunar Impact Basins
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-08 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Gruithuisen Domes - Constellation Region of Interest
PIA13193:
Gruithuisen Domes - Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-01 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Marius Hills Constellation Region of Interest
PIA13179:
Marius Hills Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-26 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Lunar Swirls at the Mare Ingenii
PIA13160:
Lunar Swirls at the Mare Ingenii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-25 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Hertzsprung Constellation Site
PIA13178:
Hertzsprung Constellation Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-24 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Splendors of Mare Smythii
PIA13157:
Splendors of Mare Smythii
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-20 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Hole in One
PIA13156:
Hole in One
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-19 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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This image is a NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter closeup of a small fresh crater with very dark ejecta highlands near Rima Bode II.
PIA13148:
Rima Bode
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-17 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Regolith Patterns in Mendel-Rydberg
PIA13140:
Regolith Patterns in Mendel-Rydberg
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-12 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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In an Instant!
PIA13135:
In an Instant!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-11 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the floor of a crater in the Mare Frigoris.
PIA13132:
Central Peak of Bullialdus Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-07 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the floor of a l.2-km diameter crater in the Mare Frigoris.
PIA13106:
Mare Frigoris Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-05 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image close up view of Copernicus crater showing light-toned fractured bedrock exposed on the higher slopes on the central structural uplift.
PIA13095:
Central Peak of Copernicus Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-05 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this anaglyph image is a close up view of Copernicus crater. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA13094:
Central Peak of Copernicus Crater (Anaglyph)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-03 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's view of boulders on an outlying rampart of the complex central peak of Tsiolkovskiy crater.
PIA13089:
Floor of Tsiolkovskiy -- Constellation Region of Interest
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Constellation Region of Interest at Mare Tranquillitatis
PIA13079:
Constellation Region of Interest at Mare Tranquillitatis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-21 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows highlands terrain inside the Dante Crater.
PIA13059:
Dante Crater Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-16 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Retracing the Steps of Apollo 15
PIA13058:
Retracing the Steps of Apollo 15
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-15 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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A sinuous rille created by a lava flow snakes around the base of a massif in the Prinz-Harbinger region on the Moon in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA13039:
Rimae Prinz Region - Constellation Region of Interest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-14 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Exposed Fractured Bedrock in the Central Peak of the Anaxagoras Crater
PIA13038:
Exposed Fractured Bedrock in the Central Peak of the Anaxagoras Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-13 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging Retroreflector - A Fundamental Point on the Moon
PIA13037:
The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging Retroreflector - A Fundamental Point on the Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-09 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Two small black arrows on today's image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the location of a small graben (28 meters in width) in a pyroclastic mantling deposit in the SW portion of Mare Humorum.
PIA13026:
Graben and Pyroclastics in SW Mare Humorum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-07 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The unusual shapes of craters at the Flamsteed Constellation region of interest provide information about the thickness of the lunar regolith in this region in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA13023:
Each Crater Tells a Story
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-02 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Many fractures on the Moon are seen in the floors of ancient, flat-floored highlands craters in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA13008:
Alphonsus Crater Mantled Floor Fracture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-04-01 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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This NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) image is of the summit crater of Hortensius Dome Phi. Summit craters of all the Hortensius Domes show no raised rims and are not circular, indicating they are analogous to volcanic calderas.
PIA13006:
Hortensius Dome Phi
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-30 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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This high resolution image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the floor of the Apollo Basin, a large (538 km diameter) double-ringed impact crater in the southern hemisphere of the far side.
PIA13002:
Apollo Basin: Mare in a Sea of Highlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-29 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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This image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small secondary crater chain near the southwestern margin of Mare Orientale, within the Inner Rook Mountains. The ~125-meter-long chain lies within the Orientale multi-ring basin.
PIA12999:
Chain of Secondary Craters in Mare Orientale
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-26 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Materials excavated during formation of this ~450 m diameter impact crater have an unusual two-toned character, likely a reflection of heterogeneity in the target materials. This crater occurs in Balmer Basin. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnai
PIA12987:
Two-toned Impact Crater in Balmer Basin: A Reflection of the Target?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-25 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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Luna 16 was the first robotic mission to land on the Moon on basaltic plains of Mare Fecunditatis and return a sample to the Earth. It was launched by the Soviet Union on 12 September 1970. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12984:
Luna 16
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-22 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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On April 14th 1970, the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impacted the Moon North of Mare Cognitum, at -2.55° latitude, -27.88° East longitude. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12979:
Rocket Impacts Recorded by the Apollo Seismic Network
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Surveyor 6 casting 18-meter long shadow with Sun just 8° above the horizon. Surveyor 6 Landed 10 November 1967 in Sinus Medii. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12978:
Surveyor 6 on the Plains of Sinus Medii
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Surveyor 5 sitting in a 10-meter diameter crater. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in September of 1967. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12977:
Surveyor 5: A Hole-in-One
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Luna 21 lander delivered the Lunokhod 2 rover to the floor of Le Monnier crater in January 1973. This image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter also shows the rover's tracks.
PIA12976:
Luna 21 Lander
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-17 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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This image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Soviet robotic lander Luna 17 still sitting on Mare Imbrium where it delivered the Lunokhod 1 Rover in November 1970.
PIA12967:
Soviet Union Lunar Rovers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-15 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed in the rugged highlands between Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Crisium. The Luna 20 descent stage still sits silently on the Moon, clearly visible in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12960:
Soviet Union Lunar Sample Return Missions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-13 Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spied a very subtle mare-highlands boundary in Mare Moscoviense on the lunar farside, near the center of the Constellation Program region of interest.
PIA12939:
Mare Moscoviense Constellation Site
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This NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders on a wrinkle ridge in Mare Crisium.
PIA12958:
Crisium's Constellation Region of Interest
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The Marius Hills pit is a possible skylight in a lava tube in an ancient volcanic region of the Moon called the Marius Hills. This image was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12954:
Marius Hills Pit -- Lava Tube Skylight?
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The lunar highlands exhibit rhythmic patterns thought to result from slow, downslope creep of the loose regolith (soil). These subtle patterns are most easily seen when the Sun is low to the horizon in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit
PIA12953:
Near the Summit of Malapert Mountain
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This image taken NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is a high-resolution view of part of the floor of Riccioli Crater. The view is centered on the boundary between a spur of the crater's central peak materials and volcanic lava flow deposits.
PIA12950:
Riccioli Crater: Cracked, Melted, and Draped
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This image taken NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the wall of crater Van de Graaff C, where brighter material is exposed by more active processes associated with steeper slopes, recent small craters, and even individual rolling boulders.
PIA12952:
Crater Wall in Van de Graaff
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Overlapping petals of bright ejecta illustrate the complexity of ejecta emplacement, even in smaller impact events in image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12951:
Intricate Young Ejecta Blanket in Ancient Murchison Crater
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This image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the spectacularly preserved viscous flow on the NE rim of Byrgius A crater.
PIA12949:
Out of the Shadows: Impact Melt Flow at Byrgius A Crater
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This image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a wide variety of geologic features on northwest of Plato crater.
PIA12948:
Plato Crater
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Precise 3D Measurements of Objects at Apollo 14 Landing Site
PIA12947:
Precise 3-D Measurements of Objects at Apollo 14 Landing Site
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Montes Pyrenaeus meets Mare Nectaris in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12946:
Montes Pyrenaeus meets Mare Nectaris
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter looks near the northeast edge of the unusually large melt pond adjacent to the lunar far side crater King.
PIA12945:
King Crater's Unusual Melt Pond
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Part of the vast pyroclastic deposit located on the Aristarchus plateau is visible in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12944:
Aristarchus Plateau (2): Pyroclastic Deposit
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This image is a Digital Terrain Model of the large Orientale Basin, located on the western hemisphere of the Moon.
PIA12943:
A Digital Terrain Model of the Orientale Basin
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This image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the slopes of the Vallis Schröteri, 'Cobra Head' are boulder-rich and display albedo variations -- bright to dark.
PIA12942:
Aristarchus Plateau (1): Amazing Geologic Diversity
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders and impact melt line the floor of the 85-km crater Tycho, a potential site for future human exploration.
PIA12941:
The Floor of Tycho
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a lobate scarp in the mare basalts of Aitken crater on the lunar farside (arrows).
PIA12940:
Aitken Crater
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Boulders perched atop a wrinkle ridge in Mare Imbrium west of the Montes Teneriffe can be seen in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12938:
Wrinkle Ridge Near Montes Teneriffe
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A junction between the rims of three craters on the floor of Peary crater near the lunar north pole is evident in this image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12937:
Peary Crater: Greetings from the North Pole of the Moon
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Seeing small areas of the Moon at 50 cm per pixel often presents unexpected views, and sometimes it is hard to interpret the geology at first glance, much less what is up and what is down, as evidenced by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12936:
Moon or Abstract Expressionism?
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A subset of NAC Image M112162602L showing landslides (bottom) covering impact melt on the floor (top) of a fresh Copernican-age crater at the edge of Oceanus Procellarum and west of Balboa crater taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12935:
Fresh Copernican Crater
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A bottleneck at the start of the lunar sinuous rille within Vallis Alpes formed several morphologic features including a lava pond, a breached dam, and an island in the rille in this image captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12934:
Vallis Alpes
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Graben are common extensional features on the Moon as well as the other terrestrial planets and icy satellites. This graben formed within a larger graben as captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12933:
Pull Apart -- Grabens
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Frozen impact melt flows on the ejecta blanket of the young impact crater Giordano Bruno in this image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12932:
Impact Melt Flows on Giordano Bruno
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captures a northeast-trending wrinkle ridge cuts across the plains of Mare Imbrium.
PIA12931:
Wrinkle Ridges of Northwest Mare Imbrium
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captures a debris flow extending down the southwest wall of Janssen K crater.
PIA12930:
Debris Flows I
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This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a view of boulders, on the floor of Rutherfurd crater, about to disappear into the shadows of dusk.
PIA12929:
Cluster of Farside Secondary Craters
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This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a view of boulders, on the floor of Rutherfurd crater, about to disappear into the shadows of dusk.
PIA12928:
Central Peak of Rutherfurd
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Most mountains on the Earth are formed as plates collide and the crust buckles. Not so for the Moon, where mountains are formed as a result of impacts as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12927:
Mountains of the Moon
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This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dark materials excavated by later small impacts show up clearly on the bright ejecta of a small lunar crater to the west.
PIA12926:
Dark Craters on a Bright Ejecta Blanket
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captures high noon at Tranquility Base.
PIA12925:
High Noon at Tranquility Base
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Landslide deposits seen on the steep interior slopes of Marius crater taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12923:
Landslides in Marius Crater
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New view of the Apollo 12 landing site in Oceanus Procellarum imaged from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mapping orbit.
PIA12922:
Apollo 12 Second Look: Midday on the Ocean of Storms
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