Water Around a Fresh Crater

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Caption:

These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name	Value	Additional Values
Target	Moon
System	Earth
Target Type	Satellite
Mission	Chandrayaan-1
Instrument Host	Chandrayaan-1
Host Type
Instrument	Moon Mineralogy Mapper
Detector
Extra Keywords	Color, Crater, Infrared, Water
Acquisition Date
Release Date	2009-09-24
Date in Caption
Image Credit	ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown Univ.
Source	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12226
Identifier	PIA12226