Barnstorming Linné Crater

Color enhanced view of Linne crater on the Moon, showing elevations ranging from -3052 to -2508 m.
Color coded shaded relief map of Linné crater (2.2 km diameter) created from an LROC NAC stereo topographic model. The colors represent elevations; cool colors (purple, blue) are lowest and warm colors (white, red, orange) are highest.
NASA/GSFC/ASU
March 14, 2014
CreditNASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
PIA NumberPIA14022
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A color-coded relief map of Linné crater, 1.4 mile (2.2 km) in diameter, created from a stereo topographic model created with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. The colors represent elevations; cool colors are lowest and hot colors are highest.

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Color coded shaded relief map of Linné crater (2.2 km diameter) created from an LROC NAC stereo topographic model. The colors represent elevations; cool colors are lowest and hot colors are highest.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center built and manages the mission for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera was designed to acquire data for landing site certification and to conduct polar illumination studies and global mapping. Operated by Arizona State University, LROC consists of a pair of narrow-angle cameras (NAC) and a single wide-angle camera (WAC). The mission is expected to return over 70 terabytes of image data.

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