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Science NASA LRO snaps some hellish pixs of Moon
Science NASA LRO snaps some hellish pixs of Moon | NASA LRO snaps some hellish pixs of Moon |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Friday, 03 July 2009 | |
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Science DiscussionsThe LRO Camera (LROC) is actually two cameras: a low-resolution Wide Angle Camera (WAC) and a high-resolution Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). According to the NASA press release NASA’s LRO spacecraft sends first lunar images to Earth, “The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium.” Mare Nubrium, or “sea of clouds” is a lunar mare (or, large, dark-looking basaltic plains on the Moon's surface formed by eruptions of volcanos long ago in its past) on the near-side of the Moon. It is located southeast of Oceanus Procellarum. The Hell E crater is located in the southern part of the Mare Nubrium, within the western part of the lunar plain Deslandres. The 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) wide crater is quasi-circular, with an outward bulge along the western rim. Its unevenly surfaced floor is rolling, with a low but prominent central mound, narrow inner wall, and a sharply edged rim. Hell E crater is at 34.5 degrees South latitude and 6.1 degrees West longitude. It falls about 2.2 kilometers (1.4 miles) from rim to floor. Page two continues. |
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