The Depths of Mare Ingenii
NASA image release June 17, 2010
Impact craters are visible everywhere on the moon, but pits are rare. This pit in Mare Ingenii, the "sea of cleverness," is about 130 meters (427 feet) in diameter! Image width is 550 meters (1,805 feet), illumination is from the upper right, LROC Frame: NAC M128202846LE.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
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The Depths of Mare Ingenii
NASA image release June 17, 2010
Impact craters are visible everywhere on the moon, but pits are rare. This pit in Mare Ingenii, the "sea of cleverness," is about 130 meters (427 feet) in diameter! Image width is 550 meters (1,805 feet), illumination is from the upper right, LROC Frame: NAC M128202846LE.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
To learn more about this image go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.