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Mrs. Keith- Houle

RB. Lunar-tics!. Southeastern Imbrium Crater Age Dating and Ejecting Data. Bank. Red. March 30, 2011. High. Scientific Research. 11:00 E 10:00 C. School. Mrs. Keith- Houle. Objectives Covered. What we covered for Phase II Moon rocks from Houston, TX on loan Moon Zoo training

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Mrs. Keith- Houle

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  1. RB Lunar-tics! Southeastern Imbrium Crater Age Dating and Ejecting Data Bank Red March 30, 2011 High Scientific Research 11:00 E 10:00 C School Mrs. Keith-Houle

  2. Objectives Covered What we covered for Phase II • Moon rocks from Houston, TX on loan • Moon Zoo training • GIS Imagery hits Red Bank High School • How we set up our GIS Format • Map analysis/craters • Technical issue overcome in gaining imagery • Cross section in Archimedes • Trask method for Imbrium (Archimedes Crater) and Sea of Serenity • Data Collection • Conclusions

  3. Moon rocks take out Red Bank High School -NASA mania hits

  4. Lunar Sample from Apollo 16 Mission Moon Rocks • Launch Pad: Florida, USA (Kennedy Space Center) • Launch Date: April 16, 1972 • Lunar Landing: April 21, 1972 • Mission Duration: 11 d 01 h 51 mins. • The astronauts brought back 94.7 kg of lunar samples from the moon.

  5. We used MoonZoo to help train our eyes to learn to identify craters. We mapped over 1251 images in 8 days.

  6. How We Got the Imagery To start: Imagery- how to capture the image, where to capture the image, and how to use the image. We downloaded imagery from “LROC” and LO orbiters- this took a while and a lot of false starts. We finally found on the internet. We used NASA Article technical paper from NASA to aid in our choice of imagery and how to proceed. Eureka!

  7. Imbrium, you never looked so beautiful! The Image!!!

  8. How We Stored Our Imagery Data • We used 24 memory flash drives to divide up the swathes. • 19 swathes covering 9,630.4754304 square kilometers in the Southeastern Imbrium Basin

  9. Ta!Da!- Mare Imbrium- Archimedes crater Swathes 12 11 1 16 10 5 19 18 4 15 9 3 6 8 2 13 17 14 7

  10. Area Covered Distance covered in 1 swathe is about 120 mile or 72 Km 120 miles

  11. Randy Hale- GIS Guru that helped! Vice President at Georgia URISA Member of the Board at TNGIC 1st Vice President at ASPRS Owner at North River Geographic Systems, Inc Geospatial Analyst at North River Geographic Systems Inc.

  12. How we set up our GIS format Create Features Table of Contents • Includes names of objects found, distinguished in colors. • Names are selected to identify objects of focus. • Includes the name of our swathe, which is our work base • Also includes different names of objects found on the swathe

  13. GIS Format – Part 2 Attributes Construction Tools • Used to identify craters detailed features • Used to shape certain objects in the way they are formed Description Describes the object and its features

  14. How To Edit a Compound Crater

  15. This is Crater Analysis! This is a compound crater. The rim walls are connected. Compound Simple

  16. With all of this information we created these!!! Left Right Swathe #4 With craters marked Combination to make corrected shift with GIS imagery Swathe #7 with only craters marked Swathe 6 Swathe #6 with imagery behind it

  17. How We Worked!! WORK! WORK! WORK! Mrs. Keith is a real task master! Over 3 weeks 23 students (Scientific Research) & 1 teacher put in 30 hours- we mapped over 55,000 craters At times it seemed like all we did at Red Bank was map craters on the moon.

  18. GIS Hits Red Bank But mayhem soon followed: 1. GIS crashed twice, and had to reload (which took 8 hours each). 2. We thought we had lost $30,000 of GIS Software-the search was on! 3. Power went out 4. Data crashed laptop 5. Data when printed took up over 1,100 sheets of paper, we stopped at 460. 6. Twitter knows about us! In England and Canada. 7. Data corruption on ‘stick’ 24 8. Can we take a picture and not have the Camera stolen! 9. 4 months of begging to get free software from Virginia GIS.

  19. Technical Issues We Faced With Imagery 1. Figure 1 1.) Lining up pictures with dots to make swaths 2.) Issues when we were downloading data from LROC was compression data to make swathes and from them not to pixilate or become fuzzy 3.) Last 2 swathes from Sea of Serenity had Long and Lat problems

  20. Download Flipping Image after 1st rotation Original Image When we downloaded the crater imagery in order to use the images we had to first turn pictures 90° Clockwise Final Image Then we had to turn an additional 90° Clockwise again until the original image had been rotated a total of 180° Clockwise from its original position

  21. Projection Issues matter: • We put swathes in the southern part of the Imbrium basin to make the projection more rectangular. Better data in the long run! • Still swathes were smaller at the top and wider at the bottom more due to curvature of the moon even with cylindrical projections to lessen long/lat issues. • Sinusoidal Projections allow us to have true and accurate diameters of craters. Earth Cylindrical Projection Moon Sinusoidal Projection

  22. Imbrium

  23. Ileminite Rock (Fe² TiO³) - Formula Has a melting point of 1800ºC or 3272ºF The name for the place of the discovery is Ilem mountains in Russia Metallic to sub metallic metal generally iron black meaning that the lava that formed the south eastern portion of Imbrium had to be around 1800ºC or greater during eruption. +

  24. Cross sectional Data for Archimedes Crater 2 1 3 7 4 5 6

  25. Cross Sections

  26. Overall Data Table Read Out Trask 1 – Imbrium So, what is trask?......

  27. What is the Trask Method? • The Trask Method is a way of determining the ages of craters based on these assumptions: • Newly formed craters appear sharp with raised rims and rayed ejecta. • Craters are subdued and destroyed eventually by meteorite impacts. • Small craters are eroded faster and disappear in less time than large craters.

  28. 62 Trask Method Pages Done by hand!!! Only 1038 to go…..UGH!

  29. A Trasking We Will Go!!! (Counting Crater Diameters) We added, Counted, Divided, Rechecked Then 62 Pages in we Found The Microsoft Excel Program

  30. Trask Method 1 Data-Via Excel (InteriorImbrium/ Archimedes / Archimedes) The Relative date of our swathes was: we found craters in the Copernican time interval of 1 and 3. the majority of our impact craters (32,007) were between 50 and 500 meters in diameter at 78.1%. 17.9% of our craters fell between 10 to 50 meters.

  31. Crater Diameters Trask 1 Crater Diameters Amount of Craters Diameter of Craters

  32. Summary of GIS Trask 1 Data – Imbrium Crater

  33. Trask 1 Data

  34. Trask 2 Data

  35. New Trask Images

  36. Two Swathes Red - Imbrium

  37. Two Blue Swathes - Serenity

  38. Two Red Swathes – Inbrium Trask 2

  39. Two Blue Swathes – Serenity Trask 2

  40. New Swathe’s Location

  41. What Did We Learn? • The age of the Archimedes crater inside the south eastern Imbrium 1.8-2.75 Copernican • The age of the western Serenity crater 2.5-4.3 Copernican • 55,000 craters mapped • The different types of craters: Bright Whites, Dark Haloed, Compound, Simple. • Area mapped totals: Imbrium 9,630.46 sq Km (5,778.4 sq. miles) • Serenity 2,156.5 sq Km (1,293.9 sq miles) • All areas mapped total: 11,786.9 sq Km (7,o72.11 sq miles) • The type of rocks in the Archimedes crater is ILeminite • The melt temperature of rocks on the moon in Archimedes 1800ºC or 3272ºF • How to use GIS to map the moon • Most craters in both areas fell between 50-500m-wih 78.1% in Imbrium and 67.1% in serenity • Cross Sections: 1,500 ft rim walls in the southern portion of Imbrium • Comparing like areas for best data: Old Area: 2012.4 km New Area:2156.5 km

  42. Where do we go from here? • Develop a DM Model of swathes that went through the rim wall of Archimedes to see elevation and slump patterns • Get Data for 3-D Modeling, 50% overlap needed • Get swathes outside the Imbrium. The whole perimeter! We had to stop at 2! For times sake • Look at statistical data for more trends to answer questions of why so few craters in 500-1000m? 1000m-5000m? • the 0-10 – we think our resolution or picture would not let us see and the 5000-10000m are really rare.

  43. Bibliography • http://www.lpi.usra.edu • http://www.the-moon.wikispaces.com • http://www.apollo.sese.edu • http://www.tappedin.org • http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/archog/060315/srille.html • http://www.homepage.ntlworld.com/peterlloyd3/moon/craters/membrium050423.html • http://www.nasa.gov • http://www.moontoday.net • http://www.moonzoo.org • http://www.onlinecharttool.com (slide 36) • http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarOrbiterDigitization/Pilot/lunorbWebovervu.html • http://www.galleries.com/minerals/oxides/ileminite/ileminite.html • Http://www.mindat.org

  44. Thank You!!! Red Bank High School 2011

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