Butterfly-shaped Craters are Found on the Lunar Surface

NASA's own Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) with its narrow-angle camera captured a strange crater, causing the attention of astronomers
Lunar Orbiter-2 is an unmanned automatic detector, after its purpose is to perform the task of "Moon Surveyor" Project Apollo manned lunar landing program and select the appropriate candidate landing sites. In 1967, the spacecraft is very famous, because it sent back this famous photo: This is an internal side view of Copernicus crater, this picture shocked the world, was at the time the media as "the century photos" .
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1, according to NASA news report, a recent lunar surface oddly shaped crater caused astronomers note that the strange shape of the crater so the scientists suspect that what is conventional meteorite shock formation, or decades ago, the impact of human spacecraft deliberately formed.

NASA's own Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) with its narrow-angle camera captured this strange crater, this high precision equipment, which can even track the Apollo-era distinguish some traces of the detector remains .

James Ashley (James Ashley) Arizona State University (ASU) post-doctoral students, he explained that these photos clearly show the dark and bright areas of the lunar soil composition and maturity differences. Ashley think that this butterfly-shaped "surface features" may be the year NASA launched the "Lunar Orbiter 2", in 1967, Fengyun detector end of the task performed in a controlled crash, Zhuixiang lunar surface .

Lunar Orbiter-2 is an unmanned automatic detector, after its purpose is to perform the task of "Moon Surveyor" Project Apollo manned lunar landing program and select the appropriate candidate landing sites. Ashley wrote: "According to the 2007 publication of the Global Atlas of lunar exploration, Lunar Orbiter-2 on October 11, 1967 crashed into the side of the moon controlled." Fengyun detector is very famous in 1967, Because when it shot a famous photo of the crater Copernicus, when this photo was also the media as a "century photographs."

For the record, Lunar Orbiter-2 crash site is located on the controlled surface 119.1 degrees east longitude, latitude 3.0 degrees. However, these data are only estimates, because the ground control side of the moon is not within direct radio communication can not. However, the photo shoot location is latitude and longitude 119.149 degrees east longitude, latitude 3.02 degrees, and record values ​​are very close, suggesting that there may be some connection between the two. But this argument still has much to answer questions.

For example, Ashley pointed out that the crater appears too large, a size of only a few meters of the impact of the effect seems to be impossible to probe the formation of the scale of the crater. Preliminary estimates show that the diameter of the rubble about 85 meters, but because it is difficult to distinguish the true edge of the crater, so it is difficult to say exactly how much the true diameter.

This means that now this statement is only a guess, but then carried out detailed observations will probably answer these questions. Ashley said: "The fact is we do not know the causes of the rubble and now we are ready to adjust the angle of the detector camera to capture light more ideal angle high-resolution photographs to accurately measure out the the edge of the crater size. wait it! "