Tsiolkovskiy
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Tsiolkovskiy
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Lat: 21.2°S, Long: 128.9°E, Diam: 185 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), Upper Imbrian | |
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Apollo 17 image AS17-139-21302, South up |
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images (see also: Tsiolkovskiy, north of, Tsiolkovskiy, west of , Tsiolkovskiy, northwest of, Tsiolkovskiy, south of, and Tsiolkovskiy, southeast of)
- Plus two "forgotten" Hasselblad photographs of Tsiolkovskiy: AS12-47-6869 and AS12-47-6870. These two photographs are also online as King-Size Hi-Res; in Kipp Teague's PROJECT APOLLO ARCHIVE (Full Hasselblad Magazines).
- AS15-91-12383 which is an extraordinary oblique Hasselblad of Tsiolkovskiy's central peak, looking like an "isle of chalk, surrounded by a sea of asphalt", was included on page 252 of the article TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON by Kenneth F. Weaver (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, February 1972). Research: Danny Caes.
- AS08-14-2450, which is one of six oblique Hasselblads of Tsiolkovskiy's central peak and immediate environs, shows a remarkable greenish coloration. This greenish/ bluish coloration is something which is noticeable on almost all of Apollo 8's color-Hasselblads of the moon. - DannyCaes Nov 22, 2007
Maps
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Central peak composition: A, GNTA1, GNTA2, AT (Tompkins & Pieters, 1999)
- Exterior impact melt deposits most extensive to SE, max of ~50 km beyond rim. Most extensive ejecta, rays and secondary craters to the SSE, with max wall slumping on SE side of crater, and topographically lowest rim crest to W (Hawke and Head, 1977).
- Tsiolkovsky was formed by an oblique impact Craddock and Greely, 1988 with the projectile coming from the NNW; the presence of previous Fermi crater determined a lower west rim
- Crater counting gives age of 3.51 billion years for mare on crater floor (Tyrie, A. (1988) Earth, Moon & Planets 42, #3, 245-264.
- On the moon's globe, Tsiolkovskiy is almost the exact antipode of Aristarchus. Strange as it is, nearside crater Aristarchus has the most high-albedo inner slopes and floor of all the pronounced craters on the moon's surface, while farside crater Tsiolkovskij has the most low-albedo floor of all (or so it seems). Research Danny Caes.
- TSI = 35, CPI = 20, FI = 25; MI =80 Smith and Hartnell, 1973
- Tsiolkovsky was a Constellation Program Region of Interest.
- Measurements of crater topography using Kaguya laser altimeter terrain profile graphs.- LunarJim LunarJim Jul 21, 2011
- Note: West rim is much lower than East rim. Summit of central peak is high point on a T-shaped ridge.
- Crater depth: Measurements on 4 axes separated by 45 degrees.
- Zero reference level = Moon average radius.
- Average floor level (average of lowest levels on 4 axes) = -1831m
- Average rim height (average of 8 rim data points) = +2970m
- Average crater depth (average rim height to average floor level) = 4.80km
- Deepest point on crater floor(from zero reference level) = -1877m
- Max. crater depth (highest point on rim to deepest point on crater floor) = 5.91km
Central Peak Height(above average floor level) = 2.76km
Nomenclature
- Named for Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 17, 1857 – September 19, 1935), an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist, physicist and pioneer of astronautic theory. Image (possibly a drawing) below is of Tsiolkovskiy.
Credit: NASA images. - Discovered in Lunik 3 imaging of farside and named in Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon; approved by the IAU in 1961 (Whitaker, p 232).
LPOD Articles
The Beginning (Luna 3), Follow the Bouncing Boulder
Bibliography
- APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 6), Figures 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, and 177 (Figure 171 is a crater on Earth).
- About the curious greenish/ bluish coloration on Apollo 8's color-Hasselblads: The Old Moon and the New (V.A.Firsoff). Sidgwick & Jackson, London (1969).
- Cheek, L.C. and P.M. Pieters (2012) Variations in Anorthosite Purity at Tsiolkovskiy Crater 43rd LPSC #2624.
- B.T. Greenhagen et al (2016) Origin of the anomalously rocky appearance of Tsiolkovskiy crater
