Ina from Apollo & LROC

8 years 1 month ago - 8 years 4 weeks ago #6634 by Todd

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For those unfamiliar with the Lunar surface feature Ina, it is essentially a basin, technically known as a crater , located in Lacus Felicitatis, an area of the Moon geologically populated with ancient lava flows. Within the depression lie several rounded basalt hills. The Apollo 17 70mm hasselblad frames, AS17-152-23286 and AS17-152-23287 , both show the feature exhibiting a blue hue. The image below was cropped from a processed version of the raw NASA/JSC/ASU scan.

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter narrow angle LROC frame M116282876R shows most of Ina close up. The areas that surround the smooth basalt hills are what I find the most interesting. There are sections that resemble square blocks or foundations with raised features on some of them that look like complexes and constructions. Some objects resemble pillars with arrangements that remind me of Stonehenge. There are wall like features also present, open and closed. The images below are various sections of M116282876R which were processed from the PDS raw EDR .img file.

NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University original

Last edit: 8 years 4 weeks ago by Todd. Reason: Changed "CDR" to the corrected "EDR"

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8 years 4 weeks ago #6635 by WillFarrar

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This blew me away Todd! WOW!!!!

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8 years 4 weeks ago #6639 by Todd

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Yes, it's quite something. As far as volcanic features on the moon go, Ina is one of the more recent events . It looks to me like a small city that was inundated with a lava flow. Certainly more to come on this one as there is a lot of stuff out there on this feature.

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This blew me away too, Todd. I saved these to my 'Todd' folder. Thanks!

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8 years 4 weeks ago #6656 by Todd

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Here is Ina from the Apollo 15 panoramic frames AS15-P-0176 and AS15-P-0181. The direction of spacecraft motion makes a left (AS15-P-0181) and right (AS15-P-0176) image available for a 3D anaglyph (bottom). The images below were processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif scan, both tile #4.

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8 years 3 weeks ago #6672 by Todd

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Here is a composite of Ina made from LROC M119808916L (left) and M119808916R (right).There is spectacular detail on this one as well. I think this is as good as it gets outside of the Apollo panoramics . The images below were processed from the PDS raw EDR .img file.

NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University originals:
wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0/M119808916LE
wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0/M119808916RE

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8 years 3 weeks ago #6677 by WillFarrar

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The blue of this is amazing. I want to put all your stuff together and make A video here soon..

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