(Well, sorta...)
A reduced resolution image of the oblique NAC image. The crater Gruithuisen B is 9 km in diameter, north is
to the right [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
Posted on 06/03/2022 5:18:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
How did these silicic magmas form on the moon, when silicic volcanoes on Earth typically form in the presence of both water and plate tectonics?
The Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) investigation consists of a suite of five instruments, two of which will be mounted on a stationary lander and three mounted on a mobile rover to be provided as a service by the CLPS vendor.
Over the course of 10 Earth days (one lunar day), Lunar-VISE will explore the summit of one of the Gruithuisen Domes. These domes are suspected to have been formed by a sticky magma rich in silica, similar in composition to granite. On Earth, formations like these need oceans of liquid water and plate tectonics to form, but without these key ingredients on the Moon, lunar scientists have been left to wonder how these domes formed and evolved over time.
By analyzing the lunar regolith at the top of one of these domes, the data collected and returned by Lunar-VISE’s instruments will help scientists answer fundamental open questions regarding how these formations came to be. The data also will help inform future robotic and human missions to the Moon.
(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...
Cool!
Nerds will take over the Earth someday.
With any luck, that is...
I think it averages 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes.
I’m not nerdy about rounding. I can truncate instead.
Yeah, I don’t know why they would call 10 days a lunar day. Maybe that’s how long the sun shines on those domes each cycle.
There’s no rhyme or reason for it. He/she, like George Lucas with his use of the word ‘parsec’, probably thought no one would notice or care. But come on, this is NASA.
I thought you were into details, my mistake.
(Well, sorta...)
But not the mineral rights.....
As the great astronomer Blutarsky said years ago, “lunar zits”!
Hey - eat too much green cheese, get “lunar zits”.
The ‘domes’ are hollow ...
And then one wonders why they used a ‘reduced resolution image’ ... is there something(s) that they do not want us to see?
They've finally found Waldo!
He's on the Moon!
2nd row, up six, third from left.
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