You can now compare the work of these pioneers of lunar exploration with current data. We have collected and processed the best digitized versions of old lunar maps that have fallen into the public domain. We thank a lot David and the LPI for giving us the authorization tu use them in VMA.Īll these textures complement each other because the lighting conditions of each texture change, thus showing different details for each of the formations. Harrel (SD Mines) for the US Geologic Survey / Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff.ĭavid O’Brien of the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) has realized a texture with the “Lunar Astronautical Charts” (LAC) drawn on 1965 by the United States Air Force (USAF) and published by the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Put online last month, it is a color texture showing the different types of lunar terrain established from the results of several probes and produced by Corey M. The texture “USGS Unified Geological 2020” This particularly highlights the ejecta from recent craters. It is a black and white albedo texture, but the gray levels are reversed as in a photo negative. The initial texture only includes the zones between -60 ° and + 60 ° latitude and the polar zones have been reconstructed from other LRO data. It is not a photograph because it was established by computer from the altimetric data collected by the two probes to create a DEM (Digital Elevation Model). This texture has a variable resolution reaching 60 m / pixel in the best places. Mosaic of the original images of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (USA) and Kaguya (Japan) probes assembled from USGS data. The reconstructed texture “LOLA-Kaguya-Shaded” The one we are introducing today in the VMA corresponds to the highest resolution available to date.
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As full coverage at a given resolution progresses, Mark Robinson of Arizona State University and his LRO team publish new global maps of the Moon. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently in lunar orbit, transmits images of the lunar surface reaching a resolution of 1 m.
The level 6 “LRO / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter” photographic texture: The crater is named after Warren de la Rue, a British amateur astronomer (1815–1889), who, amongst other things, was a pioneer of lunar photography.Introduction of various translations of the VMA interface or of certain databases in German, Catalan, Croatian, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian and Lithuanian, in addition to French and English. With a favourable libration, larger telescopes clearly show individual structures within the Mare, and under high angles of illumination parts of the lava flow are crossed by bright rays.Ī large, heavily destroyed walled-plain with a diameter of 136 km, and both large and small craters on the floor. The lava-covered surface has a diameter of about 270 km. Mare Humboldtianum is the central, lava-flooded area of an impact bas in with several outer rings (i.e., a multi-ring basin), with an overall diameter of 640 km. Part of it stretches onto the lunar farside, and as a result, favourable observational conditions are very closely linked to the libration. Mare Humboldtianum, ‘Humboldt Sea’, is a difficult object for terrestrial observers, because it lies right on the Moon's northeastern limb. Under high solar illumination, a system of bright rays of ejecta, of unknown origin, becomes visible crossing the crater. Three small craters that are almost the same size lie directly to the west of the inner crater wall. Large apertures reveal a few small and minute craters. The crater was formed during the Nectarian period. The crater's floor is smooth and has been flooded with unusually dark lava there have been landslides in several places along the walls.
It has a diameter of 123 km and is 2.8 km deep. With a favourable libration, Endymion is a very conspicuous complex crater on the Moon's northern limb.
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