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SMART-1 views Hadley Rille near Apollo 15 landing site

26 July 2005

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SMART-1's AMIE camera obtained this image of the lunar surface from an altitude of about 2000 kilometres. It covers an area of about 100 kilometres and shows the region around Hadley Rille centred at approximately 25° North and 3° East.

The rille begins at the curved gash on the left side of this image, and is seen clearest in the rectangular, mare-floored valley in the centre of the image. It is over 120 kilometres long, and up to 1500 metres across and over 300 metres deep in places.

Credits: ESA/Space-X, Space Exploration Institute

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