There are so many remarkable formations in this picture that do not even know what to talk about.
Rima Hadley is always a show piece as well as the intricate network Rimae Fresnel. Santos Dumont always stands out when the moon is at that stage but what caught my attention was the large number of craters in Archimedes since they are relatively difficult to see, as well as in Plato craterelets floor.
We can not also forget that there north of Mons Hadley Delta is located in the base of the Apollo 15 which already have detailed the mission in the following post:
http://www.astrobin.com/187791/0/Archimedes 50 miles or 82 kilometers in diameter, is one of the most picturesque craters on the moon. It consists of a ring of mountains with floor plan, and has the typical central peak of the crater of that size because the interior was flooded with lava flows .
Archimedes is a good example to date events by the superposition. It lies within the Imbrium basin, a huge impact basin formed during the late bombardment of the moon about 4 billion years ago. We can be sure that there are no craters that have survived the impact that formed Imbrium. On the other hand, the crater is flooded with lava that filled the basin Imbrium about 3.1 billion years ago. So your age is between 4.0 and 3.1 billion years.
Because both Archimedes and Imbrium basin are inundated by the sea basalt, their training must be more than just volcanic activity. . Just study the relationships between resources, scientists can piece together your story!
The mountainous terrain south of the crater is called Archimedes Montes, or Archimedes Mountains. Like all lunar mountains, it is a fairly nondescript, low mass, and probably represents an exposed part of the Imbrium basin floor that was not buried by lava.
Source: LRO / NASA - Dutch Museum of Applied Sciences
Adaptation and text: Avani Soares
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