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Moon : Rupes Altai, Piccolomini and Fracastorius

author: P.Lazzarotti/Novapix

reference: a-lun02-30002

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 12 cm

Rupes Altai is an escarpment running more than 400 km long and 1000 m high. Its southeastern end (bottom) is the crater Piccolomini. Top right, the very last sun ray is leaving Fracastorius in the darkness. Image taken on october 1st 2007, two days before the last quarter of the moon.

Keywords for this photo:

2007 - ASTRONOMY - BLACK AND WHITE - CLIFF - CRATER - FRACASTORIUS - IMPACT CRATER - MOON - PICCOLOMINI - RUPES ALTAI - SATELLITE -