From: Richard P. Wilds [astromaster@sunflower.com] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:30 PM To: Dunham, David; atc@aber.ac.uk; JP Mitaka NAO Mitsuru Soma; anthony.mallama@gmail.com Cc: Dunham, David & Joan, home; david.dunham@kinetx.com; bobgraze@sbcglobal.net; Guzman, Jose J.; AU ACT Woden Herald, David Subject: Re: New Radar Maps of the Moon Greetings All: The map that was generated does look quite good. The only problem is that it only covers the South Pole area from the craters Scott over to Cabeus from (with Leibnitz B in the middle) east to west and Newton to the north, but the best coverage for us is back past the pole to the mountains M4, M5, and M6 in the Cassini Region. Our grazes range well beyond Scott on the one side an Cabeus on the other, but the mapping data looks very good in the range it covers. Thank You! Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dunham, David" To: "Richard P. Wilds" ; ; "JP Mitaka NAO Mitsuru Soma" ; Cc: "Dunham, David & Joan, home" ; ; ; "Guzman, Jose J." ; "AU ACT Woden Herald, David" Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:11 PM Subject: FW: New Radar Maps of the Moon This is interesting; I hope that it compares better with previous work than the Arecibo radar results did. There's an interesting statement: "We now know the south pole has peaks as high as Mt. McKinley and crater floors four times deeper than the Grand Canyon," says Doug Cooke, deputy associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. - but we've known that from grazes for years, and even Watts knew about it, although the extrapolated data from his charts into the Cassini regions were wrong (but corrected with our graze observations); maybe we didn't know the crater floors were as deep as they claim because those aren't observed during grazes, and Watts would have had trouble seeing them, too (they would never be in profile as seen from the Earth, with higher elevations usually or always blocking their view). David ________________________________ From: NASA Science News [mailto:snglist@snglist.msfc.nasa.gov] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:42 PM To: NASA Science News Subject: New Radar Maps of the Moon NASA Science News for February 29, 2008 New high-resolution radar maps of the Moon's south pole reveal a fantastic land with peaks as high as Mt. McKinley and crater floors four times deeper than the Grand Canyon. NASA has used the data to create a dramatic VR movie of a moon landing from the point of view of an astronaut. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29feb_radarmoon.htm?list976867 You are currently subscribed to snglist as: david.dunham@jhuapl.edu. This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=976867D&n=T&l=snglist or send a blank email to leave-snglist-976867D@lyris.msfc.nasa.gov