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This is an area in the southern highlands with lots of interesting features. It includes the
Rheita valley which is a long valley, probably formed by a string of craters, starting at Rheita
in the north and extending south through Young and Young D and finally out of the picture.
The large crater Petavius at the top of the picture is bout 3,800 million years old
and 180 km in diameter with walls rising to 3300 metres (although the lighting here does not
show this well). Well shown, though, is one of several rimae that cut across the
otherwise flat floor; this one extending from the foothills in the south-west to the 1700-metre high
central mountain. The feature Rheita E intrigues me; it appears to be a long, narrow valley
but it carries only the crater designation Rheita E. Stevinus and Snellius form a nice pair;
Stevinus is much the younger of the two at no more than 1,000 million years compared with
3,900 million years for Snellius. The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and east and apply in the region of Funerius. The picture was taken at 19:07 UT on 14th March 2005 with my EXT125. |
| Date and Time | 14th March 2005 19:07 UT | Camera | ToUcam 740K | Telescope | ETX125 at prime focus | Capture | K3CCDTools. high gamma, 1/100", 36% gain, 321 frames | Processing | Registax. 242 frames stacked. Wavelets 1,2 = 10 and 3 = 5 Slight sharpening of the image in PhotoImpact. |
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