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| + | <td><div align="center" span class="main_sm">Image Credit: Galileo, Dec 8, 1990</div></td> | ||
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| + | <p class="story" align="center"><b>An Unusual View of a Lunar Limb </b></p> | ||
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| + | As the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth-Moon system to get a gravitational boost for its long trip to | ||
| + | Jupiter, it imaged the Moon. Most attention was focused on the Full Moon view of | ||
| + | [LPOD-2004-03-18.htm Mare Orientale], visible at top right. No one seems to have paid much | ||
| + | attention to the craters along the limb and terminator at the bottom of the image. I find it fascinating to try | ||
| + | to identify familiar features when seen with a strange perspective like this. You try. In particular, see if you | ||
| + | can figure out the name of the large crater at bottom right, or the brighter rimmed one a little further up along | ||
| + | the limb. Move your mouse over the image for the surprising identifications. </p> | ||
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| + | <p class"story"><b>Related Links:</b><br> | ||
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| + | [http://www.lpod.org/LPOD-2004-01-05.htm South Polar Wilderness]</p> | ||
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| + | <p class"story"> <b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> Fold A Moon</p> | ||
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| + | <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Author & Editor:</b><br> | ||
| + | [mailto:chuck@observingthesky.org Charles A. Wood]</p> | ||
| + | <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Technical Consultant:</b><br> | ||
| + | [mailto:anthony@perseus.gr Anthony Ayiomamitis]</p> | ||
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An Unusual View of a Lunar Limb As the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth-Moon system to get a gravitational boost for its long trip to Jupiter, it imaged the Moon. Most attention was focused on the Full Moon view of [LPOD-2004-03-18.htm Mare Orientale], visible at top right. No one seems to have paid much attention to the craters along the limb and terminator at the bottom of the image. I find it fascinating to try to identify familiar features when seen with a strange perspective like this. You try. In particular, see if you can figure out the name of the large crater at bottom right, or the brighter rimmed one a little further up along the limb. Move your mouse over the image for the surprising identifications. Related Links: Tomorrow's LPOD: Fold A Moon <img src="../../../MainPage/spacer.gif" width="640" height="1"> |
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