February 9, 2012
Credits: NASA-Apollo 15 Crew - NASA/JPL/NSSDC - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF
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Hill Crater is a relatively small Lunar Impact Crater that is located to the West of the prominent Crater Macrobius, near the Eastern Edge of the Lunar Region known as Sinus Amoris. This Lunar Crater was previously designated "Macrobius B", before being given an "official" name by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It lies just to the North/North-East of Crater Carmichael, which is another recently renamed "Satellite Crater" of Macrobius. Hill Crater is a circular, bowl-shaped Impact Feature with an Inner Wall that has a relatively high Albedo (if compared to the surrounding Terrain). The Inner Walls of Hill are symmetrical in form, and slope gently down to the small Floor at the mid-point, a surface about one-fourth the diameter of the Crater itself. This formation is not significantly eroded, and is otherwise indistinguishable from many similar Lunar Craters. This frame has been contrast enhanced and then colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the Apollo 15 - CSM Endeavour - and then looked down, towards the Surface of the Moon), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. |
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