moon topo

[stefan]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lro-topo.html

The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.


(click image below to see full size image)


http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/604359main_WAC_CSHADE_O000N1800_1000.jpg

[agostinone]

Am I looking at this correctly--some of those craters down in the southern (purple/blue) area have a drop off of about 15,000 feet (3 miles) or more?

[stefan]

yeah the gigantic crater at the south pole of the moon is like 5 miles deep