From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: December 4, 2006 10:28:39 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: New Lunar Dome?

Milton (and other lunar enthusiasts):

You might want to check out the USGS' "Map-a-planet" site.  I

especially like the "clickable map", notably the advanced version. 

I've not done much searching for Clementine data (I use it for Mars

mapping), but they've got it there.  

When I clicked on the area of your image, I got this:

http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/explorer-bin/mapmars4.cgi?WHEREFROM=PZ&VERSION=INTERMEDIATE&DATA_SET_NAME=moon_clementine_multi&PIXEL_TYPE=BIT8&SCALE=pixels/degree&PROJECTION=SINUSOIDAL&RESOLUTION=32&RESAMP_METHOD=NEAREST_NEIGHBOR&BANDS_SELECTED=%225,3,1%22&FORMAT=JPEG&LONBOX=14.52&LATBOX=16&GRIDLINE_FREQUENCY=none&STRETCH=AUTO&LAT=48&LON=302.24&LINE=512&SAMP=334

But the home page is here, so you can find your own favorite datasets:

http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/

You might also find the "PIGWAD" website useful:

http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/pigwad/maps/the_moon.htm

Yeah, gross name, but if you do a google search, it comes out right at

the top!

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Alan;

Chuck Wood thinks it's an unusually colored (i.e reddish so it's  

titanium poor) older lava flow, possibly part of Telemann Formation  

as described in the illustrations on page 163 and 164 of The Modern  

Moon (which I'm getting fro X-Mas). However he was not aware that  

it's elevated like that at all.

The only other shot of that area I've found on the web is

http://www.pbase.com/image/70273552

and it's a lot higher view and is not low level illuminated like my  

shot. However you can see that it is a slightly elevated area and  

that the northern end of it has some sharper humps which might be  

volcanic cones (the cones are pure conjecture on my part).

Too bad the seeing wasn't better.

I may try to image it and Rumker again tonight, to see if I can pick  

out any color differences.

That whole area on that approximate longitudinal line extending from  

Marius hills to Aristarchus to Mons Rumker up into Sinus Roris is  

volcanically interesting.

TTYL..

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On 4-Dec-06, at 10:06 AM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi Milton -

Interesting pictures - I am not familiar with this region. The  

region does appear to be referenced in Rukl's map 8 - perhaps the  

low sun angle is accentuating the appearance of the elevation? Be  

interested to hear if you get more info from Chuck Wood.

best -

Alan