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Dazzling satellite views of vast Moon crater


December 30, 2011

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), overseen by ASU professor Mark Robinson, has been busy taking high-resolution photos of the Moon's surface. Most recently, LROC captured stunning photos of the Moon's enormous Aristarchus crater. Adam Mann, a science reporter and freelance journalist with Wired magazine, posted a story on Wired's website about this crater, which is two times as deep as the Grand Canyon.

This spectacular image was LROC's Image of the Day, Dec. 25. Read more about this image

Article source: Wired Science

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