Thursday 6 March 2008

NASA Lunar Illumination Movie


This movie is a simulation of the amount of solar illumination in the south polar region of the moon over a solar day generated using high resolution topography.

1 comment(s):

Joel Raupe said...

Quite a shot, and "illuminating," also, of the topography. If accurate, and we can only hope that is the real reason NASA released this Goldstone Radar data, then it show three, perhaps four craters deep enough to be "rain barrels" holding Cometary water and gives a 17,000 meter hight to Malapert, with it's tippy top peak rim high enough to be almost (but not quite) eternally lit by the sun, even at libration.

Amazing.