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The Moon is home to some amazing mountains. Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form via slowly colliding tectonic plates, most lunar mountains form near-instantly through asteroid or cometary impacts. Here are some resources to explore them. 🗻 1. With cool elevation graphs and
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Curating pretty sights of our Moon.
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I compiled this video from some pretty views of the Red Planet shot by the orbiter.
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The bright and magnetic features whose origin remain a mystery.
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Celebrate space exploration and be reminded of its significance with this Sputnik wallpaper pack.S
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And how NASA's Moon orbiter pulls it off with a single camera.
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Earth-like Talus cones in the crater of Pytheas.
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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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Small meteorites constantly bombard the Moon and create micro-sized craters.
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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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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 best preserved large impact basin on the Moon.
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