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GAMOW
Farside Directory - Ridge Section 79


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                                    Left.  Ridge Section 79; Right: Cropped 1200 dpi USGS color chart of Section 79                                            

Larger version of region
This area above D'Alermbert is not on the USGS Charts
Lunascan Quad Composite of Sections 79, 80 &  87 & 88
LRO  Wide Angle Camera 6 in pdf (Gamow)
LRO  Wide Angle Camera 18 in pdf (Yamamoto)


BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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Gamow is Ridge Section 79 and named after a 129 km impact crater on the lunar Far Side. It is located in the northern hemisphere to the southeast of the huge walled plain Schwarzschild (Section 78). This is a worn and eroded feature, with a rim that has been battered and overlain by multiple impacts. Gamow V is attached to the western exterior, and the joined crater pair Gamow A and Gamow B overlie the northeastern side. The eastern rim is the most damaged section, while the rim to the west is free from impacts. The western inner wall does display a fine radial groove texture, but is otherwise nearly featureless. Near the midpoint is a ghost-crater feature consisting of just the rim projecting up through the otherwise relatively level surface. The cropped USGS chart to the right shows more terrain than Ridge section 79.  In our section Karpinskiy is to the northeast with Schjellerup just southeast of it. Oberth is just north of center with Yamamoto a little southeast. Part of the huge crater D'Alembert (Section 87) is at the bottom of our chart. (Credit: Some of the information used in the section feature descriptions was obtained from wikipedia.org.  Section 79 and this directory was created by Fran Ridge and Ned Haskin of The Lunascan Project).

             USEFUL TOOLS:

Lunar Farside Chart [300 dpi] (NASA/LPI)
Farside Image Composite [1600 dpi] (NASA/LRO)
Farside-contour-map-gray2800.jpg
lunascan.com/lunascan/LAC_maps.htm (Bob Garfinkle) *
planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Moon1to1MAtlas

CRATERS:
Gamow, 129 km
Karpinskiy, 91.4 km
Oberth, 60 km
Schjellerup, 62 km
Yamamoto, 76 km

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar & Planetary Institute:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ (Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/ (Photo Gallery)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?karpinskiy%7C0

APOLLO IMAGES:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ (Apollo Image Atlas)
No images found for this area.

CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
None found

LUNAR RECONNAISANCE ORBITER IMAGES:
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/
/planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1694?__fsk=-711467030 (D'Alembert)
lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/643 Rim Slumping in Gamow
/lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/704 Karpinskiy Crater
/lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/685 Karpinskiy Floor Fractures

YOU TUBE FLYOVERS:
None found

RESEARCH UPDATES:
/the-moon.wikispaces.com/Karpinskiy?showComments=1