PIA14420: Bright Ridge near Mons Hansteen


Bright Ridge near Mons Hansteen

Caption:

Portion of wrinkle ridge extending from Mons Hansteen to the northeast. Illumination is from left, incidence angle is 26°, image width is 550 meters.

In two areas of the image high reflectance boulders are on the top of the ridge. The sinuous line to the right of these boulder clusters is the eastern edge of the wrinkle ridge.

Background Info:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center built and manages the mission for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera was designed to acquire data for landing site certification and to conduct polar illumination studies and global mapping. Operated by Arizona State University, LROC consists of a pair of narrow-angle cameras (NAC) and a single wide-angle camera (WAC). The mission is expected to return over 70 terabytes of image data.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Moon
System Earth
Target Type Satellite
Mission Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Instrument Host Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Host Type Orbiter
Instrument Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NAC)
Detector Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), Wide Angle Camera (WAC)
Extra Keywords Grayscale, Mountain
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2011-04-08
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14420
Identifier PIA14420