March 2, 2011

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Backyard Moon

LPOD-Mar2-11.jpg

image by Howard Eskildsen

We are awash now in super high resolution spacecraft images but our most common view of the Moon is from our backyards and gardens. Howard's image captures a view more like we can see. Petavius is the feature that grabs our attentions because its giant trench is so unlike any other lunar crater. And it is one of the few craters in this battered region that retains part of its ejecta blanket - radial ridges of debris. To the south is an older large crater, Furnerius, that is odd because its floor contains a small patch of mare lava and a rille. Why are they here, so far from a basin? To the left of Furnerius is the feature I've called the Chuck Wood

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