View across the North Rim of the Moon's Cabeus Crater (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

View across the North Rim of the Moon's Cabeus Crater

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This is a view from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft across the north rim of Cabeus crater. The leaping dust behavior may be observed on the moon in places like this where sunlit areas are close to shaded regions.

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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

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