The sky was reasonably clear last night/early morning, so I pulled another all-nighter. Got some decent shots of our moon ... and a few of Jupiter that I haven't looked at yet.
Mare Imbrium that you see here is thought to have been caused by a protoplanet that crashed into our moon over 3 billion years ago.
The Apollo 15 landing site is in this area. I should have marked it in Photoshop, but to get the general area, find the three craters (Archimeded, Aristillus, and Autolycus) in the lower right quadrant ... the large, medium, and small ones grouped together ... draw a straight line from the medium one ( Aristillus) to the small one (Autolycus), curve around the two mountains you see there and take a right angled turn into the mountain ridge. That's where it is ... near Hadley Rill.
Click on this a couple of times and you should be able to zoom in to see the detail.
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