Perspective View of Terrain in the Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Perspective View of Terrain in the Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly

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The nature of the terrain jumps out when orbiter camera images are draped over a digital terrain model created with those images. At the center of the province is an irregular depression that might well be a caldera and at its edges are domes with features that suggest they were formed by the intrusion of high-viscosity silicic lava, a type of lava rare on the moon. Any model of the moon's thermal evolution must now be able to account for this volcanic province as well as the familiar mare.

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erspective view looking to the northeast, generated with a WAC 100-m-per-pixel image draped over the GLD100 (100-m-per-pixel) digital terrain model developed by F. Scholten, DLR. NASA/GSFC/ASU/WUSTL.

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