Taruntius is a crater often overlooked.
There are few pictures of her by amateurs or spacecraft. This image made by me shows because it has been forgotten.
The 58 km wide crater this is the same diameter as the more familiar Erastothenes, but has only 1.1 km deep compared to 3.4 kilometers deep latter. Whereas Eratosthenes has a wide inner wall terraces, Taruntius has almost none. Its central peak is relatively small, since the Erathosthenes is broad and complex. These differences between two impact craters relatively young and originally similar imply that Taruntius was changed by increasing the floor under it. Like Atlas, Taruntius is a fractured crater floor (
http://www.astrobin.com/216231/). Taruntius has a strong ring on the inner ridge - the tops of the terraces are displaced the crater wall? - And concentric and delicate Rilles are visible in this image. What is visible under high sun are patches of dark material south of the central peak and close to the northern border. In the picture we can not see the small crater whose volcanic explosion was the origin of the southern ash deposit. The northern opening can be elongated crater Taruntius C (now Cameron). A complete view around also shows that ash plumes fell out of the north rim, and also west of Taruntius. This as well as photos of the Lunar Orbiter shows ejected from Taruntius material in the mare fecunditatis neighborhood, and beyond that Taruntius also has a weak system of rays. Based on its rays, Taruntius is considered a crater of the Copernican period of age, ie younger than 1 billion years. This means that the lava that covered, raised his ground and exploded on its surface were very young.
Source: LPOD - Charles Wood
Adaptation: Avani Soares
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