Image: Messy peaks of Zucchius
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
Even to the naked eye, our Moon looks heavily cratered. The snippet of carved and pitted lunar surface shown in this image lies within a 66 km-wide crater known as Zucchius. From our perspective, Zucchius is located on the edge of the southwest limb of the Moon.