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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 | |
