South Ray

South Ray (aka South Ray Crater) (Apollo 16 site craterlet name)

Lat: 9.2°S, Long: 15.4°E, Diam: 0.68 km, Depth: 0.135 km, Rükl: 45, Copernican

Apollo 16 Site Traverses Chart

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images Panorama South Ray Crater
- Additional Apollo 16 photographs of the horizontal high-albedo streak officially known as South Ray Crater:
AS16-109-17770 (above the television camera, near the horizon)
AS16-109-17790 (behind Plum crater)
AS16-109-17797 (behind astronaut John Young and the Lunar Rover)
Research Apollo 16 photography: Danny Caes

- South Ray Crater's interior (its chaotic floor and inner slopes) could be investigated at LON: 15.385 / LAT: -9.148 (1 M/PIX) in the LRO's ACT-REACT Quick Map.- DannyCaes Jun 26, 2011

Maps

(LAC zone 78D2) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map Topophotomap 78D2/S1

Description

South Ray is one of the high-albedo ray craterlets near Apollo 16's landing site which are already observable through common telescopes. The best time to observe both ray craterlets (North Ray and South Ray) is during Full Moon. It is not known if the much smaller Baby Ray (near South Ray) is also detectable through powerful telescopes. A good specialist of telescopic Hi-Res webcam photography could come up with the answer...
This crater (South Ray) is a very fresh simple crater, 680 m in diameter. Samples collected date it as 2 million years old, the youngest material collected during the Apollo missions.

Description: Wikipedia

South Ray crater (correct link)

Additional Information

The Landing Site Name "South Ray" is plotted on Site Traverses chart 78D2S2.
 
 

Nomenclature

Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 16 site.
 
 

LROC Articles

First LROC Stereo Results

Bibliography

APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 1), Figures 105 and 106.
  George E. Ulrich, Henry J. Moore, V. Stephen Reed, Edward W. Wolfe, And Kathleen B. Larson (19xx) Ejecta Distribution Model: South Ray Crater.
  David M. Harland: EXPLORING THE MOON, the Apollo expeditions.
  Eric M. Jones: APOLLO LUNAR SURFACE JOURNAL (ALSJ).

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