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<em>montage compiled by Chuck Wood</em><br />
 
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Yesterday's LPOD ([http://lpod.wikispaces.com/March+7%2C+2013 Small Feature Tour]) included a linear shadow-casting feature south of Lansberg. I called it a mini-Straight Wall because of its shadowing. Mike Wirths, whose great images were used to create many LPODs, let me know today that a discussion of this feature has been going on in a Telescope Reviews [http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5678611/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1 forum] since mid-February when one of its members, Brian Albin, pointed out the feature on a Lunar Orbiter frame. Discussion followed about the features name (there is none) and nature - a fault or a rille? The feature has been recognized at least since 1964 when it appeared as a bright feature, presumably a mare ridge, on Lunar Aeronautical Chart (LAC) [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac76/150dpi.jpg 76] (above right). In 1965 the US Geological Survey Geological [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I458/72dpi.jpg Map] of the Riphaeus Mountains (above left) depicted the feature as a fault with the east side marked as higher (up) compared to the west. The LRO WAC image (bottom left) shows the feature as a rille in the south and looking sort of like a fault further north. A close up NAC view (bottom right) reveals that even the northern part is a rille, about 200 m wide. The topography cross-section surprisingly shows, however, that the rille marks the mid-section of a 3 km wide, 80 m high rise from west to east. In the Telescope Reviews discussion the geologically perceptive Mardi Clark interpreted the feature as a graben, i.e., a tectonic rille. I have commented twice, yesterday calling it a fault (based on a QuickMap topo profile across a WAC image), and last [http://lpod.wikispaces.com/message/view/February+14%2C+2013/60452508 month] I reported that from LRO images that it was a narrow rille. From a plan view it is a rille/graben, the images commonly show the east side is higher as if it were a fault, and the topo cross-section (which I am not certain I completely believe) makes it a thin rille perched in the middle of a continuous rise. It is an unusual linear feature, definitely a rille, but also a shadow-casting elevation.<br />
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Yesterday's LPOD ([http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/March_7,_2013 Small Feature Tour]) included a linear shadow-casting feature south of Lansberg. I called it a mini-Straight Wall because of its shadowing. Mike Wirths, whose great images were used to create many LPODs, let me know today that a discussion of this feature has been going on in a Telescope Reviews [http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5678611/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1 forum] since mid-February when one of its members, Brian Albin, pointed out the feature on a Lunar Orbiter frame. Discussion followed about the features name (there is none) and nature - a fault or a rille? The feature has been recognized at least since 1964 when it appeared as a bright feature, presumably a mare ridge, on Lunar Aeronautical Chart (LAC) [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac76/150dpi.jpg 76] (above right). In 1965 the US Geological Survey Geological [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I458/72dpi.jpg Map] of the Riphaeus Mountains (above left) depicted the feature as a fault with the east side marked as higher (up) compared to the west. The LRO WAC image (bottom left) shows the feature as a rille in the south and looking sort of like a fault further north. A close up NAC view (bottom right) reveals that even the northern part is a rille, about 200 m wide. The topography cross-section surprisingly shows, however, that the rille marks the mid-section of a 3 km wide, 80 m high rise from west to east. In the Telescope Reviews discussion the geologically perceptive Mardi Clark interpreted the feature as a graben, i.e., a tectonic rille. I have commented twice, yesterday calling it a fault (based on a QuickMap topo profile across a WAC image), and last month I reported that from LRO images that it was a narrow rille. From a plan view it is a rille/graben, the images commonly show the east side is higher as if it were a fault, and the topo cross-section (which I am not certain I completely believe) makes it a thin rille perched in the middle of a continuous rise. It is an unusual linear feature, definitely a rille, but also a shadow-casting elevation.<br />
 
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br />
 
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<strong>Related Links</strong><br />
 
<strong>Related Links</strong><br />
Rükl plate [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/R%C3%BCkl+42 42]<br />
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Rükl plate [https://the-moon.us/wiki/R%C3%BCkl_42 42]<br />
<em>[http://lpod.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Atlas+of+the+Moon 21st Century Atlas]</em> chart 22.<br />
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<em>[[21st Century Atlas of the Moon|21st Century Atlas]]</em> chart 22.<br />
 
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[March 7, 2013|Small Feature Tour]] </p>
 
<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[March 7, 2013|Small Feature Tour]] </p>

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50 Year Uncertainty

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montage compiled by Chuck Wood

Yesterday's LPOD (Small Feature Tour) included a linear shadow-casting feature south of Lansberg. I called it a mini-Straight Wall because of its shadowing. Mike Wirths, whose great images were used to create many LPODs, let me know today that a discussion of this feature has been going on in a Telescope Reviews forum since mid-February when one of its members, Brian Albin, pointed out the feature on a Lunar Orbiter frame. Discussion followed about the features name (there is none) and nature - a fault or a rille? The feature has been recognized at least since 1964 when it appeared as a bright feature, presumably a mare ridge, on Lunar Aeronautical Chart (LAC) 76 (above right). In 1965 the US Geological Survey Geological Map of the Riphaeus Mountains (above left) depicted the feature as a fault with the east side marked as higher (up) compared to the west. The LRO WAC image (bottom left) shows the feature as a rille in the south and looking sort of like a fault further north. A close up NAC view (bottom right) reveals that even the northern part is a rille, about 200 m wide. The topography cross-section surprisingly shows, however, that the rille marks the mid-section of a 3 km wide, 80 m high rise from west to east. In the Telescope Reviews discussion the geologically perceptive Mardi Clark interpreted the feature as a graben, i.e., a tectonic rille. I have commented twice, yesterday calling it a fault (based on a QuickMap topo profile across a WAC image), and last month I reported that from LRO images that it was a narrow rille. From a plan view it is a rille/graben, the images commonly show the east side is higher as if it were a fault, and the topo cross-section (which I am not certain I completely believe) makes it a thin rille perched in the middle of a continuous rise. It is an unusual linear feature, definitely a rille, but also a shadow-casting elevation.

Chuck Wood

Related Links
Rükl plate 42
21st Century Atlas chart 22.

Yesterday's LPOD: Small Feature Tour

Tomorrow's LPOD: Perceptions



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