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| + | <td><div align="center" span class="main_sm"><p>Image Credit: NASA Apollo 15 Metric Camera Image 2610</p></div></td> | ||
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| + | <p class="story" align="center"><b>Wood's Spot</b></p> | ||
| + | <p class="story" align="left">One of the brightest craters on the Moon is the 40 km wide Aristarchus in northern Oceanus Procellarum. Nearby is the largest lunar rille, Schroeter's Valley. Both of these cut into the largest and strangest, but historically often overlooked mare island, the Aristarchus Plateau. Or the name I prefer, Wood's Spot, named after early 20th centrury astronomer R.W. Wood who discovered that the plateau is anomalously bright in the ultraviolet. In the visible the plateau is one of the lunar areas that sometimes seems faintly colored - once I saw it as a delicate mustardy green. Compare this oblique Apollo view with Tom Williamson's color [[wiki/January_3,_2004|webcam image]]. Note the dome in the bottom left-center of the image. | ||
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| + | [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/clemen/cmaris.html Aristarchus Region]<br> | ||
| + | [http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:pzCfZaE1k54J:www.unsgac.org/~jim/research/LPI_internship_report.doc+aristarchus+plateau+geology&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Volcanic History of Oceanus Procellarum]<br> | ||
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| + | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[January 16, 2015|The End of Lunar Studies]] </p> | ||
| + | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[January 18, 2015|LeGrand Moon]] </p> | ||
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| + | <td><p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Author & Editor:</b><br> | ||
| + | [mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Charles A. Wood]</p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:53, 1 February 2015
Wood's Spot
Originally published January 17, 2004
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Wood's Spot One of the brightest craters on the Moon is the 40 km wide Aristarchus in northern Oceanus Procellarum. Nearby is the largest lunar rille, Schroeter's Valley. Both of these cut into the largest and strangest, but historically often overlooked mare island, the Aristarchus Plateau. Or the name I prefer, Wood's Spot, named after early 20th centrury astronomer R.W. Wood who discovered that the plateau is anomalously bright in the ultraviolet. In the visible the plateau is one of the lunar areas that sometimes seems faintly colored - once I saw it as a delicate mustardy green. Compare this oblique Apollo view with Tom Williamson's color webcam image. Note the dome in the bottom left-center of the image. Yesterday's LPOD: The End of Lunar Studies Tomorrow's LPOD: LeGrand Moon |
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