A Sharper View of Impact Craters from Clementine Data

Details A Sharper View of Impact Craters from Clementine Data A Sharper View of Impact Craters from Clementine Data

Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994sci...266.1844p&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 266, Issue 5192, pp. 1844-1848

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The ultraviolet-visible camera on the Clementine spacecraft obtained high-spatial resolution images of the moon in five spectral channels. Impact craters mapped with these multispectral images show a scale of lithologic diversity that varies with crater size and target stratigraphy. Prominent lithologic variations (feldspathic versus basaltic) occur within the south wall of Copernicus (93 kilometers in diameter) on the scale of 1 to 2 kilometers. Lithologic diversity at Tycho (85 kilometers in diameter) is less apparent at this scale, although the impact melt of these two large craters is remarkably similar in this spectral range. The lunar surface within and around the smaller crater Giordano Bruno (22 kilometers in diameter) is largely dominated by the mixing of freshly excavated material with surrounding older soils derived from a generally similar feldspathic lithology.

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