New Moon Map Is Best Ever


	New Moon Map Is Best Ever
arifsali
2-27-2008 5:59 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aa0d7eda-9fc5-4cee-b563-2d72a57f2aba/74AE654A-6ACC-4805-A42F-D12C88C3CC16/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html">Earthlings have mapped the moon's surface for the past 4,000 years, but
  NASA's latest view is the best yet.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html">Scientists have created a new map of the south lunar pole with Earth-based
telescopes that is 50 times more detailed than the last version, created with
data from the Clementine spacecraft in 1994.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html">"This data is the highest resolution and the highest accuracy that's
ever made of lunar south polar region," said Scott Hensley, a scientist at
NASA</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html">In detail of 215 square feet (20 square meters) per pixel, the map shows
craters four times deeper than the Grand Canyon and hundreds of miles wide.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html">"It has some of the most<A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080227-zoom-lunar-02b.jpg&cap=Starting+from+a+wide+area+map+of+the+lunar+South+Pole%2C+the+scientists+progressively+zoomed+in+on+the+region+around+Shakleton+Crater.+Credit:+NASA">
incredible topography</A> in the entire solar system," said Eric de Jong,
also at JPL</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080227-moon-pole-map.html">NASA officials said they'll use the new map to scout the rugged terrain for
robot or human landing sites, as well as investigate some longstanding lunar
mysteries.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080227-zoom-lunar-02b.jpg&cap=Starting+from+a+wide+area+map+of+the+lunar+South+Pole%2C+the+scientists+progressively+zoomed+in+on+the+region+around+Shakleton+Crater.+Credit%3A+NASA" href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080227-zoom-lunar-02b.jpg&cap=Starting+from+a+wide+area+map+of+the+lunar+South+Pole%2C+the+scientists+progressively+zoomed+in+on+the+region+around+Shakleton+Crater.+Credit%3A+NASA" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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