The Aristarchus Plateau (Marco Lorenzi)

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The Aristarchus Plateau

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The Aristarchus Plateau

Link: https://www.glitteringlights.com/

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

The Aristarchus Plateau, located in the northwest part of the Moon's near side, has fascinated lunar observers since before the space age. Superimposed on the plateau is a spectacular channel (or rille), named Vallis Schröteri, and the Aristarchus Crater, the largest impact on the plateau and one of the brightest features on the moon. The plateau itself is surrounded by the lava flows of Oceanus Procellarum, and the whole region has a high concentration of sinuous rilles. The Vallis Schröteri, at left of image center, is 160 kilometers long and it is the moon's largest rille, wider at its crater head than elsewhere, which has given it the nickname of the "Cobra Head".
The Aristarchus Plateau is a potential resource for useful elements like hydrogen, oxygen, iron and titanium and therefore it is a naturally of interest to future lunar missions. This area is also noted for the large number of reported transient lunar phenomena, the highest recorded for any lunar feature.

West of Aristarchus crater (to the left in the image) is Herodotus crater with its slightly irregular, narrow rim and a flat inner floor, flooded with lava.

East of the plateau, just at right of the center in the image, is visible the crescent ring of crater Prinz and further east are the Montes Harbinger, an isolated cluster of lunar mountains at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium basin.

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