Swooping over the Lunar Highlands

Image Data

This engineering frame was acquired with only one-tenth the number of lines of a standard 52,224-line NAC frame. It is centered on an area east of Duluc M crater. From an altitude of 56 km, small features such as fresh craters and boulders can be readily identified. Many hills in the highlands exhibit this so-called "tree bark" or "elephant skin" texture. This NAC image has not been calibrated and the pixel values were stretched to enhance contrast. Image width is 2.83 km x 2.86 km; north is down.

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