Secondly, in VMA datebase ther is no Shackleton but there is Malapert, but again, where is it on the picture? Is the Malapert Peak official name and is that a hill/mountain that the Earth actally sits behind on the movie? What about Peak of Sunlight, playing with names and ideas or actual name? What’s the name of the bigger crater on the left side of picture? What are the two eliptical craters (bigger in the middle and smaler SE of it) that show at the (almost) end of movie? This are just humble questions, not requests, but as I am stuck with my informations, can’t go on, don’t know where to look… Otherwise, this searching and finding part is the most exciting part of every days LPOD for me, it’s just I can't progress anymore today lol ) Thank you for all! What advice can u give me on what also can I use for identifying unknown (to me) craters and features? In picture as today (unknown teritory for me), it would really be helpful (again to me) if there were names or numbers for identification. I am using Virtual Moon Atlas (VMA) as my prime source. See the videos here.Įvery single LPOD I use as a starting point of daily investigation.
Thanks to Paul Spudis for information about the Peak of Sunlight. This image shows these targets as we will see then a decade or so from now on approach to landing. Malapert, and the Peak of Sunlight just in front of it, are the Middle-East of the Moon - locations where constant power (non-polluting solar) will be readily available as the Sun circles the horizon around them. Comet ice, dusted onto the always dark floor of the crater over eons, may have created a treasure of volatiles to jumpstart lunar society. Shackleton, with Malapert Peak on the horizon, is the goal for the American return to the Moon. The image above, from the Earthset video, is destined to be a poster and screensaver decorating work surfaces and imaginations of every would-be lunar explorer. The Kaguya spacecraft HDTV has captured its first breath-taking videos of the lunar limb as Earth rises and sets. The perfect ellipse of a crater, with sunlight just kissing its rim crest, is a future outpost for humanity: Shackleton crater at the lunar South Pole. Image from Kaguya/Selene spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
0 kommentar(er)
