The far side of the moon (warning big pic)

[n2doc]

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University, Posted on: Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 06:38 CDT

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Wide Angle Camera (WAC) provides the most complete look at the size and shape of the surface features on the farside of the moon to date. This global mosaic is comprised of over 15,000 WAC images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011, centered at 180° longitude, 0° latitude.

http://www.redorbit.com/images/images-of-the-day/img/44834/the_lunar_farside_as_never_seen_before/index.html

[mike_c]

1. and when the band you're in starts playing different tunes....

Beautiful mosaic image!

[Silent3]

Let's bomb it!

Sorry. :evilgrin:

[Burma Jones]

2. There is no far side of the moon really....as a matter of fact it's all far

[FiveGoodMen]

4. EXACTLY what I was going to say

:toast:

[Hosnon]

9. Well there is a side that is always farther than the other, so it's technically correct. nt.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Isn't that what Silent3 said above?

It's all far in love and war?

[lob1]

3. There seems to be a lot of geological stuff happening

at both poles, far more than any other place on the moon's "edge". I wonder what causes that?

K&R.

[TrogL]

7. it's likely an artifact of how it was photographed

If you look at the moon through a telescope you only see "geological" stuff on the edges and the top. This photograph was created by combining "edge" pictures. They'd have fewer images of the stuff along the equator, but lots at the top.

[pokerfan]

14. Features near the poles can never be in "flat light"

Light from the sun will always be at right angles (plus or minus the Moon's declination) so that's going to create long shadows which produces greater contrast.

[Daphne08]

5. So cool! Thanks. n/t

[Bryan Buchan]

6. I wonder where the Alien Base is...

...that they keep discussing over and over on Coast to Coast....lmfao!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG4HHdteSEs

[plcdude]

8. see the dark crater

on the lower left hand side of the picture it is right there you can clearly see it.

[Blue Owl]

10. They musta used one helluva flash bulb for that photo!

n/t

[jimlup]

12. Does anyone remember when we saw those first grainy pictures from a Russian Probe?

I do! I was just a kid but fascinated. Now we have it mapped on Google!

[denbot]

13. Notice that the Mare's are small and heavily pock marked?

"Our" side of the moon has a bodyguard taking shots for it, and that bodyguard is earth.

[Phoonzang]

15. The lack of Mare on the far side of the moon has always interested me. nt.

[classysassy]

16. Fly me to the moon

I'll take the Republican party with me,a one way ticket for them two way for me.

[gtar100]

17. Love what they did with the place.

Excellent texturing.

[drokhole]

18. Wait, where are the Transformers?

I heard there was a documentary coming out about it soon:




(thanks for the gorgeous pic, n2doc! :thumbsup:)