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North-Polar First Look
 

The two north-polar strips have been mosaicked to show the western rim of Seares crater.

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These synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the lunar surface were taken by the Mini-RF instrument on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on Nov. 17, 2008, and are the first data taken by this instrument (also known as Mini-SAR). The spacecraft acquired these data from a 100-kilometer (62-mile) polar orbit and reveal features as small as approximately 150 meters (490 feet) across. Bright areas represent surface roughness or slopes pointing toward the spacecraft. The two north-polar strips have been mosaicked to show the western rim of Seares crater. The mosaic covers an area roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) long by 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) wide.

Credit: ISRO/NASA/JHUAPL/LPI

 
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