Lunar Photo of the Day 

Two in a Row

LPOD has never before published two images in a row from the same photographer - until now. Damian has returned from a very successful vacation/imaging session in the Caribbean and he is slowly processing and releasing a series of excellent images including some like today’s and yesterday’s of rarely seen limb craters. I am excited and want to quickly share this new information so here is the second in a row! Schluter is a relatively fresh crater near the Cordillera rim (arcing across the upper left) of the Orientale Basin. I have observed Schluter at the telescope in that I have recognized its highly foreshortened shape when looking at Orientale. But I have never seen inside the crater as clearly as shown here. Schluter is 89 km in diameter, only slightly smaller than Copernicus (93 km) and has a similar complex crater structure with terraced walls, central peak and flat floor. The northern portion of the floor contains an arc of dark mare material just visible here (see The Clementine Atlas plate 73 for confirmation). The mare lavas are probably associated with the short, narrow rilles seen on the Lunar Orbiter 4 image.floor-fractured crater.

— Chuck Wood

Technical Details:
April 24, 2005. C9.25” from a beautiful southern Caribbean vacation isle!

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Rukl Plate 39

Tomorrow's LPOD: Domeland