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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[April 15, 2012|A Thick Pile of Debris]] </p>
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Revision as of 12:07, 7 February 2015

A Low Ragged Front

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image by Tom Harradine

Another view, or views, of yesterday's Apennines. Tom has taken his own image (right) and using LTVT draped it over LRO digital elevation data to produce multiple views from different directions. The shadows are from Tom's original image as "cast shadows" was disabled for the 3D rendering. He didn't say, but it appears that there is no vertical exaggeration. In the bottom left view, looking from Mare Imbrium eastward, the Apennines look like a low, nearly continuous wall, rather than the towering scarp we often imagine from low Sun images with shadow spires. Nearly all lunar topography is less spectacular than it appears in a low Sun telescopic view.

Chuck Wood

Related Links
Rükl plate 22

Yesterday's LPOD: A Thick Pile of Debris

Tomorrow's LPOD: A Little Night Video