NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Broken Fire

The irregular depression in the center of today's image is a volcanic vent located to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin. The vent is surrounded by a diffuse, high-reflectance blanket that is the result of a pyroclastic eruption from the central vent, similar to that seen surrounding vents in Caloris basin.

Date acquired: July 05, 2012

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington