Moon - Nearside Sun 5150 kilometers across) and the

5150 kilometers across) and the Saturn-facing side of Tethys (660 miles

blue and infrared filters were combined to create this approximate true color image

Astronomers sometimes call the region imaged the “Southern Cliff” because it resembles a sharp drop-off

While climbing the Red Planet's Mt

Moon - Nearside Sun 5150 kilometers across) and theFor two weeks in mid December 2010, the LRO spacecraft remained nadir looking (straight down) so that the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) could acquire ~1300 images, allowing the LROC team to construct this spectacular mosaic. As the Moon rotated under LRO's orbit, the ground track progressed from east to west (right to left in this mosaic), and the incidence angle at the equator increased from 69 to 82 (at noontime the incidence angle is 0). NASA's