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<em>LRO Wide Angle Camera mosaic from [mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em> <br />
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<em>LRO Wide Angle Camera mosaic from [http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/SP_Mosaic NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]</em> <br />
 
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Wiechert J is the relatively fresh 34 km wide crater at bottom center. It is just 5º from the south pole. Nearby is a somewhat dark layer of material that appears to coat underlying terrain. What is it? The arrows point to areas where the dark deposit seems to have stopped in a movement across the surface. The material to the south of Wiechert J has a rough texture with groves and ridges, and one part has a slightly elevated surface with a curved, flow-front like outline. The material to the right of the crater has a much smoother surface and clearly fills in and softens underlying terrain. This material appears to have at least partially flowed. The south pole is far from any recognized volcanic deposit so it more likely that the material is some type of ejecta. But all basins are distant from the pole. So what is this stuff? <br />
 
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em> <br />
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===COMMENTS?===
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[October 4, 2010|A Surprising Plain]] </p>
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<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[October 6, 2010|Somewhere in Orbit]] </p>
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Latest revision as of 20:37, 8 February 2015

Polar Puzzle

LPOD-Oct5-10.jpg
LRO Wide Angle Camera mosaic from NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

Wiechert J is the relatively fresh 34 km wide crater at bottom center. It is just 5º from the south pole. Nearby is a somewhat dark layer of material that appears to coat underlying terrain. What is it? The arrows point to areas where the dark deposit seems to have stopped in a movement across the surface. The material to the south of Wiechert J has a rough texture with groves and ridges, and one part has a slightly elevated surface with a curved, flow-front like outline. The material to the right of the crater has a much smoother surface and clearly fills in and softens underlying terrain. This material appears to have at least partially flowed. The south pole is far from any recognized volcanic deposit so it more likely that the material is some type of ejecta. But all basins are distant from the pole. So what is this stuff?

Chuck Wood

Yesterday's LPOD: A Surprising Plain

Tomorrow's LPOD: Somewhere in Orbit


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