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CHAMÄLEON + ONJALA OBSERVATORY – LUNAR
ATLAS Segment 08 B |
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Segment 8
A Beer, Rima Hadley (Apollo 15) and Palus Putredinus Segment 8 B Wallace, Huxley and pyroclastic deposit Copernicus Segment 8 C The large domefields Milichius and Hortensius Segment 8 D Gruithuisen and putative plateaus north of Tobias Mayer |
| Moon age 8.4 - 8.8 days - Illumination 53 - 59 %
Wallace and Huxley NEW 2016 Wallace and Huxley |
Moon age 9.5 - 9.8 days
- Illumination 65 - 68 % Wallace and Huxley Pyroclastic deposit Copernicus NEW 2016 Pyroclastic Deposits Copernicus and Sinus Aestum |
Moon age 10.6 days - Illumination 74 %
Pyroclastic deposit Copernicus |
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Wallace and Huxley -
Moon age 8.4 days (53 %)
On the northwestern edge of the Apennines are two groups of domes near the crater Huxley (4 km) and Wallace (26 km) . The image is a mosaic and dates back to the year 2007. The Huxley domes 1 to 3 are marked in the image. Hu 1 has a diameter of 14 km and a height of 200 meters and is classified as effusive. Hu 2 and 3 have diameters of 7.5 x 9.6 respectively 31.5 x 23 km and heights of 50 and 85 meters. They are classified as intrusive. In the Wallace area are three large, flat upwarps labeled with 1 to 3 which partially show surface structures. All 6 structures can only be observed during a small time window with the right illumination. |
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Wallace -
Moon age 8.4 days (53 %)
The Wallace domes at similar illumination conditions. The young crater Eratosthenes (58 km) is still located in the lunar nicht. Only the western edge of the crater is illuminated in the rising sun. |
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NEW 2016 Wallace and Huxley-
Moon age 8.8 days (59 %)
The Wallace Dome with similar illumination (dome 2 and 3 are marked). The three Huxley domes are also visible. The crater floor of Erathostenes is still deep in the lunar night. |
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Wallace -
Moon age 9.5 days (65 %)
24 hours later the Huxley and Wallace domes are nearly unvisible. Erathostenes is almost complete in sunlight. The crater Wallace shows its quadratic form. |
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Pyroclastic deposit and domefield near Copernicus -
Moon age 9.5 days (65 %)
At a Moon age of 9.5 days the domefield southeast of Copernicus stands out very plastically. It it similar to the domefield of Marius Hills but it is much smaller. The whole region is covered by a pyroclastic ash layer. The Gambartdomes are also marked in this image. |
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NEW 2016 Pyroclastic Deposit and Sinus
Aestum - Moon age
9.8 days (68 %) The image shows the largest pyroclastic ash fields Sinus Aestum and Copernicus at a moon age of just 10 days. Both Gambart domes Ga 2 and Ga 3 are clearly visible. |
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Pyroclastic deposit und domefield near
Copernicus - Moon
age 10.6 days (74 %) This image was tcaptured only 24 hours later. The domefield and the ash deposits are much more difficult to see now. |
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