Dirichlet-Jackson Basin
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Dirichlet-Jackson Basin
(unofficial name)| Lat: 14°N, Long: 158°W, Main ring diam: 470 km, Depth: km, Rukl: | |
Left: Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The red dot is the central position and the white circle is the main ring position - estimated from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.
Right: LROC WAC image Centred on 180 degrees lunar longitude.
Images
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Maps
(LAC zone 69B1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Basin Classification
(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
| Certainty of Existence |
USGS Age |
Wilhelms Age Group |
Ring Diameters |
Mare Thickness |
Mascon |
| Proposed |
470 km |
Description
Additional Information
- According to laser altimetry mapping by the Kaguya spacecraft the highest place on the Moon (10.75 km above the nominal lunar radius) lies along the south rim of this basin. Reported in Planetary Society Blog.
Nomenclature
Basins filled with maria are named for the mare, and basins that were previously recognized as craters still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between, in this case Dirichlet and Jackson.
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