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| Keywords: Posidonius crater AS15-91-12366.jpg West side of Posidonius on the moon <br>This is figure 3-50 from the Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report NASA SP-289 which has the following caption <br>Western half of Posidonius Crater on eastern margin of Sea of Serenity A tightly convoluted sinuous rille crosses the raised floor of the crater turns back and follows the rim to a low point in the western rim <br> The higher resolution version is Figure 207 from Apollo Over the Moon NASA SP-362 1978 which has the following caption <br> The large approximately 100 km crater Posidonius is filled with mare lava to a level higher than the surrounding surface of Mare Serenitatis The most interesting and perplexing feature of this crater is Rima Posidonius II-the highly sinuous rille that follows a devious course from the north rim of the crater at upper right outside the photograph through the breach in the crater rim at center The rille is topographically controlled in part hugging the juncture between lava and crater material Erosion by some sort of fluid may have formed the rille; material appears to have been removed from it An alternative explanation might be that the feature represents a drained and collapsed lava tube The fluid involved probably was emitted from the craterlike depression at the head of the rille in the crater's north wall If the rille is assumed to be contemporaneous with the lava filling a lava of low viscosity would seem to be required to explain the channel's high sinuosity C A H Carroll Ann Hodges en wikipedia Apollo 15 Hasselblad camera image <br>The original image should be public domain it is a work of the U S Government NASA <br/> Immediate source Lunar and Planetary Institute Apollo Image Atlas<br>70mm Hasselblad Image Catalog Apollo 15 http //www lpi usra edu/resources/apollo/frame/ AS15-91-12366 AS15-91-12366<br> Apollo Over the Moon A View from Orbit Figure 207 http //history nasa gov/SP-362/hrp197b jpg hrp197b 1971 NASA<br/> PD-USGov Original upload log en wikipedia Posidonius+crater+AS15-91-12366 jpg wikitable - 2015-08-27 02 22 670×964× 122437 bytes Jstuby higher resolution but cropped to the right portion of the image source is http //history nasa gov/SP-362/hrp197b jpg hrp197b from Apollo Over the Moon - 2015-06-29 03 52 450×450× 39470 bytes Jstuby West side of Posidonius crater on the moon <br>This is figure 3-50 from the Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report NASA SP-289 which has the following caption <br>Western half of Posidonius Crater on eastern margin Posidonius crater Rimae Posidonius | ||||
