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| | =A Mountain or a Molehill?= | | =A Mountain or a Molehill?= |
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| + | <p>[[File:Mt Maraldi-.jpg|Mt Maraldi-.jpg]]<br /> |
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| + | <em>image by <a>KC Pau</a></em></p> |
| − | <div class="storycontent"> | + | <p>What is the real nature of a landform on the Moon? Recently, LPOD showed two high resolution Apollo 17 Metric Camera [[June_24,_2006|images]] of a peculiar hill, Mount Maraldi, in Sinus Amoris. Now, K.C. Pau has captured a telescopic view that offers a different impression. On the Metric images Mons Maraldi appears as a flat-topped, relatively steep-sided, roughly circular peak. KC’s image, with opposite illumination, shows a less unique hill with more gentle slopes and a fresh-looking crater that is hardly there in the Apollo images. The crater is so conspicuous in the telescopic view that I wondered if it had formed since Apollo times! But looking carefully at the right image of the Metric pair I could recognize the crater, although it was less obvious. In the Metric view Mons Maraldi looks strange, and I speculated in the earlier LPOD that it was probably a volcanic dome of a type of volcanic rock not sampled by Apollo astronauts. Looking at today’s image alone I would probably dismiss the mons as an isolated piece of highlands of no particular interest. So which is it?</p> |
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| − | <em>image by <a class="mailto:kcpaulhk@yahoo.com.hk">KC Pau</a></em></p> | |
| − | <p>What is the real nature of a landform on the Moon? Recently, LPOD showed two high resolution Apollo 17 Metric Camera [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060624 images] of a peculiar hill, Mount Maraldi, in Sinus Amoris. Now, K.C. Pau has captured a telescopic view that offers a different impression. On the Metric images Mons Maraldi appears as a flat-topped, relatively steep-sided, roughly circular peak. KC’s image, with opposite illumination, shows a less unique hill with more gentle slopes and a fresh-looking crater that is hardly there in the Apollo images. The crater is so conspicuous in the telescopic view that I wondered if it had formed since Apollo times! But looking carefully at the right image of the Metric pair I could recognize the crater, although it was less obvious. In the Metric view Mons Maraldi looks strange, and I speculated in the earlier LPOD that it was probably a volcanic dome of a type of volcanic rock not sampled by Apollo astronauts. Looking at today’s image alone I would probably dismiss the mons as an isolated piece of highlands of no particular interest. So which is it?</p> | |
| | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> | | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> |
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| | <p><strong>Related Links:</strong><br /> | | <p><strong>Related Links:</strong><br /> |
| | Rükl sheet 25</p> | | Rükl sheet 25</p> |
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| + | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[August 15, 2006|A Crater of Multiple Strangenesses]] </p> |
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| + | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[August 17, 2006|Better Than Orbiter]] </p> |
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