[meteorite-list] SMART-1 Image: Close-Up on Cuvier Crater Ridge

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 23 12:02:42 2006
Message-ID: <200608231559.IAA07247_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOB7BUQPE_index_0.html

Close-up on Cuvier crater ridge
SMART-1
European Space Agency
22 August 2006

This high-resolution image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging
Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the young
crater "Cuvier C" on the Moon.
 
AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006 from a distance of 591
kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 53 metres per
pixel. The imaged area is centred at a latitude of 50.1?? South and a
longitude of 11.2?? East, with a field of view of 27 km. The North is on
the right of the image.

"This image shows the resolving power of the SMART-1 camera to measure
the morphology of rims and craters in order to diagnose impact
processes", says SMART-1 Project scientist Bernard Foing, "or to
establish the statistics of small craters for lunar chronology studies".
 
Cuvier C, a crater about 10 kilometres across, is visible in the lower
right part of the image. Cuvier C is located at the edge of the larger
old crater Cuvier, a crater 77 kilometres in diameter. The upper left
quadrant of the image contains the smooth floor of Cuvier, only one
fourth of which is visible in this image.

Crater Cuvier was named after the creator of the comparative anatomy,
Georges Cuvier, a 19th century French naturalist (1769 - 1832).
 
For more information
 
Bernard H. Foing
ESA SMART-1 Project Scientist
Email: bernard.foing _at_ esa.int

Jean-Luc Josset
SPACE-X Space Exploration Institute
Email: jean-luc.josset _at_ space-x.ch
Received on Wed 23 Aug 2006 11:59:56 AM PDT