Moore is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. Like much of the far side, Moore is located in a region that has been saturated by impacts. Nearby features of note are Larmor crater to the south-southwest, and Parsons crater about the same distance to the west.
This crater has been worn and damaged by subsequent impacts, particularly along the western rim where it is overlaid by a a double-crater. The interior floor is irregular and marked by a merged chain of impacts that runs from the northwest rim to the mid-point. The satellite crater 'Moore L' is attached to the south-southeast outer rim. To the east, the satellite crater 'Moore F' has a relatively high albedo rim, and lies at the center of a small ray system.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Moore crater.
Moore, supervisor of the geotechnical engineering section of the Tennessee Department of Transportation and a member of an international scientific think tank, has located a huge crater north of the Mars equator that appears to have frozen water ice on its floor.
Moore thinks the ice is frozen water and not frozen carbon dioxide, which is known to exist south of the Mars equator.
Moore says that while studying the NASA images (captured in April by the surveyor) he noticed several unusual craters clustered together north of a large ridge.
Feeds |
Contact