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| − | + | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/albums/userpics/Volta-Repsold_LO-IV-188M_LTVT.JPG [[Image:normal_Volta-Repsold_LO-IV-188M_LTVT.JPG|external image normal_Volta-Repsold_LO-IV-188M_LTVT.JPG]]]<br /> ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2814 LO-IV-188M]'' The IAU-approved feature names in this medium resolution [[Lunar%20Orbiter|Lunar Orbiter]] view include: '''Volta''', [[Repsold|Repsold]], [[Regnault|Regnault]], [[Stokes|Stokes]], [[Langley|Langley]], [[Galvani|Galvani]], and [[Rimae%20Repsold|Rimae Repsold]].<br /> [[Image:Volta-LRObigShadows.jpg|Volta-LRObigShadows.jpg]]<br /> [[Image:Volta-LRO.jpg|Volta-LRO.jpg]]<br /> LRO images. Regnault, cutting Volta's western rim, has a Pac-Man shadow.<br /> <br /> | |
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Revision as of 17:57, 15 April 2018
Contents
Volta
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Lat: 53.9°N, Long: 84.4°W, Diam: 123 km, Depth: 3.0 km, Rükl: 1, pre-Nectarian |
LO-IV-188M The IAU-approved feature names in this medium resolution Lunar Orbiter view include: Volta, Repsold, Regnault, Stokes, Langley, Galvani, and Rimae Repsold.
LRO images. Regnault, cutting Volta's western rim, has a Pac-Man shadow.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
(LAC zone 21C2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Large, smooth-floored crater crossed by numerous rilles. The fact that the entire floor is domed up 275 m implies that rilles may be expansion cracks generated by doming. Amazingly, the floor of Regnault is part of the broad domed area of Volta - both craters are domed.
Why do many of the craters west of Oceanus Procellarum have rilled-floors? This is probably the largest area of rilles on the Moon.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 3.58 km
From LRO altimetry, depth varies from 2.7 to about 3,2 km, and central peak height 590 m. (CAW)
Entire floor domed up about 275 m (CAW)
Nomenclature
- Count Allessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Italian physicist (1745-1827).
- Name originally proposed by Schmidt but not in Named Lunar Formations; shifted to a different crater in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, pp. 224 and 235).
- Rimae Volta (an unofficial name from D.Caes for the system of rilles on the floor of Volta).
LPOD Articles
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