Lunar Rays

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Terrain rendered from LOLA LDEM_128 (LRO), 237 m/pixel, lit at the event colongitude. Amber outline is the ray found by the detector: a slender, isolated patch of sunlight on a shadowed floor. Blue ring marks the named crater. Scale is in arcseconds at the Moon's mean distance, with the frame width in arcminutes. Each still and the middle of each animation sit on the moment the ray is sharpest within 6 h of the catalogued time, which is not always the catalogued time itself. The source badge says where an event comes from and links to its RLO page.