Karpinsky Crater
This is a seemless mosaic of the 91 km diameter Karpinsky crater (72.6°N, 166.8°E), which is a farside floor-fractured crater. Here we can see the fractures really clearly! There is a rille system in the northern part of the floor, with the most prominent rille following an arc that nearly parallels the inner wall, coming closest to the edge in the northeast where is joins the rim of a small, bowl-shaped crater.
The two LROC Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) capture pairs of side-by-side images simultaneously in long, approximately north-to-south strips. To build up contiguous west-to-east coverage, multiple image pairs are collected on sequential orbits, and they form the basis of Feature Mosaics (FMs) that are constructed and released by the LROC team. These beautiful mosaics are seamless: no offsets from image-to-image are visible, and the location of each pixel’s position on the Moon is known to very high accuracy, making them extremely useful for scientific analyses or landing site planning.
Karpinsky Crater
This is a seemless mosaic of the 91 km diameter Karpinsky crater (72.6°N, 166.8°E), which is a farside floor-fractured crater. Here we can see the fractures really clearly! There is a rille system in the northern part of the floor, with the most prominent rille following an arc that nearly parallels the inner wall, coming closest to the edge in the northeast where is joins the rim of a small, bowl-shaped crater.
The two LROC Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) capture pairs of side-by-side images simultaneously in long, approximately north-to-south strips. To build up contiguous west-to-east coverage, multiple image pairs are collected on sequential orbits, and they form the basis of Feature Mosaics (FMs) that are constructed and released by the LROC team. These beautiful mosaics are seamless: no offsets from image-to-image are visible, and the location of each pixel’s position on the Moon is known to very high accuracy, making them extremely useful for scientific analyses or landing site planning.