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Curating pretty sights of our Moon.
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Views of Mars from India's Mangalyaan orbiter
I compiled this video from some pretty views of the Red Planet shot by the orbiter.
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What are swirls on the Moon?
The bright and magnetic features whose origin remain a mystery.
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Watch the Moon in 3D
And how NASA's Moon orbiter pulls it off with a single camera.
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Cone-shaped material flows on the Moon
Earth-like Talus cones in the crater of Pytheas.
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Huge, peak-ringed Apollo crater
Seen here is the huge Apollo crater on the Moon's farside, named after the incredibly successful Apollo landing missions. The crater of Apollo is crowned with an inner mountain ring, do you see it? If not, you're not alone! Since its formation over 3.9 billion
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The tiniest of impact craters [Guest post]
Small meteorites constantly bombard the Moon and create micro-sized craters.
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A peak at Hadley
Seen here the 4 kilometers tall and 25 kilometers wide Haldey mountain as captured from orbit by Apollo 15. Mons Hadley is part of a geologically rich area on the Moon. A lava-carved channel rests besides the mountain, near which the Apollo 15 astronauts landed. Hadley itself is part of
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The central mountain of Bullialdus and finding water on it
Seen here is the central mountain of the crater Bullialdus. Its composition offers a peak (pun intended) into the lunar interior. Much like the case of Tycho, the central mountain of Bullialdus is formed by an asteroid impact. The impact melted and compressed the Moon's crustal material at
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The crowned crater of Schrödinger
The best preserved large impact basin on the Moon.
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Facing lava on three sides – Promontorium Heraclides
Capes on the Moon!
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Outstanding crater chains of the Orientale basin on the Moon
They indicate the intensity of the impact that formed Orientale.
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The dynamic terrain of Aitken crater
Seen here is the large Aitken crater on the farside of the Moon, hosting a complex array of terrain features. Aitken crater stretches 135 kilometers across and is 6 kilometers deep. Like the previously covered Aristarchus, it has an arc-shaped (near) central mountain. The other prominent feature of Aitken is
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The Moon has wrinkles! - Dorsum Zirkel
Here's a long-running wrinkled ridge on the Moon called Dorsum Zirkel, in the vast lava plains of Mare Imbrium. The Moon has many wrinkled features (Dorsa) across its surface. Wrinkles are tectonic features formed by compressive stresses on the lunar surface. The dark regions of the Moon — the
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What does a fresh crater on the Moon look like?
Hell.
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A fault on the Moon - Rupes Recta
Seen here is a geological "fault" on the Moon, called Rupes Recta, as seen from orbit by NASA's Apollo 16. A fault like this is called a scarp when it separates two relatively level areas. Scarps are formed when two volumes of rock are displaced from