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Spacecraft cameras made a great photo Lava flows on the wall of one of the lunar craters. With help cameras of the Lunar Reconnaissance Probe (LRO), successfully launched to our only natural satellite on June 19, 2009 at help of the European Atlas-5 launch vehicle was photographed eastern wall of the Dionysius crater on the moon.
This is an impact crater located on the western edge of the Sea Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis). This crater has a high the albedo level when the sun illuminates it. On the walls of the crater Traces of ancient lava flows are clearly visible. Diameter of Dionysius Crater It is 18 kilometers and its depth is 2.7 kilometers.
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The darker areas in the photograph are basalt material, and in a lighter color, scree and accumulations of rocks.
We remind you that the LRO Lunar Orbital Probe has entered the orbit of the Moon June 23, 2009. And in conjunction with another Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) he is the vanguard NASA space program “Lunar Precursor Robotic Program “to return to the moon.
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