Posted on 12/05/2020 4:03:57 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Mons Rumker, a 70 kilometer wide complex of volcanic domes, rises some 1100 meters above the vast, smooth lunar mare known as Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Daylight came to the area late last month. The lunar terminator, the shadow line between night and day, runs diagonally across the left side in this telescopic close-up of a waxing gibbous Moon from November 27. China's Chang'e-5 mission landing site is also in the frame. The probe's lander-ascender combination touch down on the lunar surface within a region right of center and north of Mons Rumker's domes on December 1. On December 3 the ascender left the Ocean of Storms carrying 2 kilograms of lunar material for return to planet Earth.
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1 MtnClimber. A beautiful picture! (It just doesn’t look like that in my binoculars!)
I spend too much time doing yard work and gardening. I imagine a vast complex of mole tunnels and game trails running all over! (A small ridge of hills! looks like a running Giraffe seen from an airplane. (Center right))
Funny / strange to see such relative smoothness right next to such a heavily pockmarked surface.
Splendid photo!
The lower right hand side of the pic looks like the Ashau in 1968valley, other than the big crater.
The hoot was all the new roads winding around the craters within a day or so.
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