Posted on 12/11/2020 4:17:58 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these two large and remarkable craters on the Moon. Standouts in the dark, smooth lunar Sea of Fertility or Mare Fecunditatis, Messier (left) and Messier A have dimensions of 15 by 8 and 16 by 11 kilometers respectively. Their elongated shapes are explained by the extremely shallow-angle trajectory followed by an impactor, moving left to right, that gouged out the craters. The shallow impact also resulted in two bright rays of material extending along the surface to the right, beyond the picture. Intended to be viewed with red/blue glasses (red for the left eye), this striking stereo picture of the crater pair was recently created from high resolution scans of two images (AS11-42-6304, AS11-42-6305) taken during the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
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Stereo images are amazing. Remember it well from my days as a geology major back in the 80s viewing topo maps. The images pop right out as if you’re looking at the real thing in 3D.
BS in Geology here, discovered in field camp central Utah ‘88 that you could view topo maps without a device. Look straight ahead, kind of distance focus, and glance at the map until the images converge. I’ll try that now with this image.
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Lol!
Thanks! :)
(I Fr-mailed him and asked him to do it)
As John Belushi would say, “ZITS! The Moon has zits”.
Food Fight on the great ball Green Cheese ball!
I don't know. I'll be afraid it might make me crossed eyed!
Lol!
I think you absolutely NEED red/blue lenses on this shot. The photo 3D staring effect doesn’t work on these two color photos.
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