Byrne The Far Side of the Moon

A Photographic Guide
2008
ISBN: 978-0-387-73206-0
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 215 Seiten

The far side of the Moon, also called the 'dark side of the Moon' was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today's computer technology. Byrne's superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.

Charlie Byrne worked as a systems engineer at Bellcomm, for support of the Lunar Orbiter project. He is currently carrying out research about the Moon, and was the discoverer of the gigantic 'near side megabasin' that covers nearly all of the near side of the Moon and whose ejecta has established the shape of the far side of the Moon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, Charles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Table of Contents;8
3;The Far Side of the Moon;11
3.1;1.1. The Far Side Unknown: A Mystery;11
3.2;1.2. The Far Side Revealed: A New Mystery;11
3.3;1.3. The Current View of the Far Side;11
3.4;1.4. Mystery Resolved? The Near Side Megabasin;13
4;The Spacecraft Missions and Images;15
4.1;2.1. Spacecraft Programs;15
4.2;2.2. The Images;16
5;The History of the Moon and Its Features;20
5.1;3.1. Origin of the Moon;20
5.2;3.2. The Magma Ocean;20
5.3;3.3. Bombardment;20
5.4;3.4. The Near Side Megabasin;20
5.5;3.5. The South Pole-Aitken Basin;21
5.6;3.6. Impact Features: Craters and Basins ;21
5.7;3.7. Mare Basalt;21
5.8;3.8. The Ages of the Lunar Features;22
6;Regions of the Far Side;24
6.1;4.1. The Western Far Side Region;24
6.2;4.2. The Korolev Basin Region;24
6.3;4.3. The South Pole-Aitken Basin and the South Polar Region;24
6.4;4.4. The Northwestern Far Side Region;24
6.5;4.5. The Eastern Far Side Region;24
6.6;4.6. The North Polar Region;24
6.7;4.7. The Orientale Limb Region;24
7;Nomenclature and Conventions of This Book;26
7.1;5.1. Identification of Named Features;26
7.2;5.2. Identification of Basins;26
7.3;5.3. Latitude and Longitude;26
7.4;5.4. Scale and Age;27
8;The Western Far Side Region: Earth- Rise, Tsiolkovskiy, Gagarin, and the Mendeleev Basin;28
8.1;6.1. Overview;28
8.2;6.2. Photos;28
9;The Korolev Basin Region;61
9.1;7.1. Overview;61
9.2;7.2. Photos;61
10;The South Pole-Aitken Basin and the South Polar Region;70
10.1;8.1. Overview;70
10.2;8.2. Clementine;70
10.3;8.3. Clementine and Lunar Orbiter Coverage;70
11;The Northwestern Far Side Region: The Moscoviense Basin;104
11.1;9.1. Overview;104
11.2;9.2. The Moscoviense Basin;104
11.3;9.3. Photos;104
12;The Eastern Far Side Region: Birkhoff to Hertzsprung;134
12.1;10.1. Overview;134
12.2;10.2. The Birkhoff Basin;134
12.3;10.3. The Hertzsprung Basin;134
12.4;10.4. Rayed Craters;134
12.5;10.5. Photos;134
13;The North Polar Far Side Region;170
13.1;11.1. Overview;170
13.2;11.2. The Western Far Side Limb ( Eastern Near Side Limb);170
13.3;11.3. Bel’kovich K, a Copernican Crater;170
13.4;11.4. Clementine Mosaics;170
14;The Orientale Limb Region;182
14.1;12.1. Overview;182
14.2;12.2. The Crater Hausen;182
14.3;12.3. Radial Profile of the Orientale Basin;182
14.4;12.4. Photos;182
15;The Near Side Megabasin;204
15.1;13.1. How the Far Side Differs from the Near Side and Why;204
15.2;13.2. Impact Basin Models: The Search for the Source of the Far Side Crust;204
15.3;13.3. The Near Side Megabasin and its Effects on the Far Side;206
15.4;13.4. The South Pole-Aitken Basin and its Effects on the Near Side;208
15.5;13.5. Thickness of the Crust;208
15.6;13.6. Parameters of the Near Side Megabasin;209
15.7;13.7. Asymmetry of the Center of Mass;209
15.8;13.8. Heavy Element Anomalies;209
15.9;13.9. Summary;210
16;Glossary;211
17;References;213
18;Cleaning the Scanning Artifacts-from Lunar Orbiter Photos;214
18.1;A.1. Nature of the scanning artifacts;214
18.2;A.2. A program to clean the artifacts;214
18.3;A.3. Summary;216
19;General Index;217
20;Index of Annotated Features;219
21;Index of Far Side Features that are not Annotated;223
22;Index of Photographs;224