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	Lunar Volcanoes
		Domes generally represent centers from which their has been a quiet extrusion of successive flows of liquid lava (the chemical compositionof lunar basalts is such that they become almost as fluid as water), or where sub-surface laccolithic magma (viscous magma, forming bun shaped masses) have arched up the surface rocks.
		The distribution of the confirmed domes seems to point to two facts, one, that domes are generally found in groups rather than in single units, and two, on a large scale view there may be some evidence of chains as is found with large scale views of crater distribution.
		Domes were formally thought to be quite rare, although certain areas of major dome distribution had received attention by several early lunarians, for example S.R.B. Cook's observations of the Milichius/Tobias Mayer area in 1935 and Schlumberger's drawing of the Hortensius domes published in "The Moon", by W. Goodacre.
	www.mikeoates.org /mas/members/domes (1709 words)

	Lunar Dome Proj.
		The distribution of domes in the lunar surface favors the Western Hemisphere of the moon with almost twice the number of domes of the eastern hemisphere.
		The large cluster of 28 domes in the Hortensius-Millichius-Tobias Mayer region and the vast collection of domes in the Marius Hills region, coupled to a greater expanse of maria accounts for the greater manifestation of domes in the western hemisphere.
		This describes a dome on a mare with a diameter of 5 to 20 kilometers, elliptical in shape, average slope angle of 2 to 5 degrees and hemispherical cross section.
	www.amlunsoc.org /lunar_dome_proj_.htm (2252 words)

	Courses in Astrophotography
		To the northeast is Descartes crater, and to the south-southeast is Almanon crater.
		Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar crater.
		This massif is shaped as a rounded dome in the surface, occupying a diameter of 20 km and climbing gently to a height of 900 meters.
	www.damianpeach.com /lunar.htm (17106 words)

	Rick Evans' Amateur Lunar Photoclinometry, Spectroscopy, and Astrophotography -- Studies of the Moon and some General ...
		However, if area imaged is not too close to the lunar limb, the solar elevation does not exceed 20 degrees, and the albedo of the surface is uniform; then it is possible to use a less complex algorithm.
		Specifically they can be used to calculate the effusion rate of magma that formed the dome, the length of time necessary for the dome to form, and in some cases the ascent rate of magma in the dike that fed the dome and the width and length of the dike itself.
		The effusion rate of magma forming a single dome in cubic meters per second is approximately equal to [0.00102 * (radius of the dome in meters)^2] / Height of the dome in meters.
	www.freewebs.com /revans_01420/photoclinometry.htm (597 words)

	Tide - MSN Encarta
		The dome of water directly beneath the moon is called direct tide, and the dome of water on the opposite side of the earth is called opposite tide.
		When a dome of water passes a place on the earth, that place experiences a rise in the level of the ocean water, known as high tide or high water.
		During the periods of new and full moon, when the sun, moon, and earth are directly in line, the solar and lunar domes coincide.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561041/Tide.html (1103 words)

	Lunar dome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A lunar dome is a type of shield volcano that is found on the surface of the Earth's moon.
		Lunar domes are wide, rounded, circular features with a gentle slope rising in elevation a few hundred meters to the mid-point.
		Solitary lunar domes are also found on the near side, including Kies Pi (π), Milichius Pi (π), Mons Gruithuisen Gamma (γ) and Delta (δ), and a dome near Gambart C and the Beer and Capuanus craters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_dome (326 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of mountains on the Moon
		Mons Gruithuisen Gamma (Î³) is a lunar dome that lies to the north of the Gruithuisen crater at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium.
		Jim Irwin and the LRV from Apollo 15, with Mons Hadley in the background Mons Hadley is a massif is the northern portion of the Montes Apenninus, a range in the north hemisphere of the Moon.
		Mons Pico is a solitary lunar mountain that lies in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium basin, and to the south of the prominent Plato crater.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-mountains-on-the-Moon (2177 words)

	November 2000 SJAA Ephemeris
		Domes, on the other hand, are something most of you are intimately familiar with, whether you know it or not: Lassen Peak is a dome.
		On top of that general rise will be either a single eruptive series (a simple dome would be the result) or a repeated series of eruptions in different locations, all sourced from the same general weakness in the crust.
		But the general shape and look can be very handy in understanding lunar domes, and in particular taking a hike to the top of Lassen can really give you and appreciation for what you're seeing up there.
	ephemeris.sjaa.net /0011/d.html (757 words)

	Welcome to NASA Quest! - Preliminary Design (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lunar Ball ˆ a ball is passed from person to person, but cannot be advanced by running.
		The dome is like a bubble, so it will have a circumference of about 200 feet to fit about fifty people.
		It is connected to the dome by a hallway and the green is a rectangular prism made of the same kind of material as the dome for protection.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /lunar/outpostchallenge/prelim/jamison.html (1458 words)

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		Key to the introduction of the revealing lunar data is the synopsis of the geometrical relationships and internal constants inherent in the layout of Cydonia on Mars, and the tetrahedral, and powerfully predictive messages of the numerical "coincidences" between the patterns there and the patterns on the Moon.
		Domes as large as the one seen on a photo from the Zond 3 Soviet mission could certainly be seen from Earth based telescopes at the right phase and lunation in a location like Langrenus.
		A lunar dome that rises 4+ miles above the north-shore-massifs of Mare Crisium was recorded on an Apollo 10 photograph.
	www.lunaranomalies.com /lang.htm (1444 words)

	Astromart Articles - Observing the Moon, Sweating it out with an 8" Refractor
		Lunar craters were, in the 19th and part of the 20th century, felt to be volcanic in origin.
		Lunar domes are low blister-like swellings on the lunar surface found usually on mare plains or the floors of flat, magma flooded, craters.
		Although lunar domes as a specific category do not appear to have been separated out until the late 19th or early 20th century, Milichius Pi is clearly represented on Johann Schroeter’s early drawings made in the late 18th century.
	www.astromart.com /articles/article.asp?article_id=295 (2342 words)

	lunar domes Uai lunar section
		Lunar domes, from the morphologic point of view, are low subcircolar reliefs of convex shape, with gentle slopes, such to give shadows of curvilinear contour.
		Lunar domes are generally similar to Earth shield volcanoes especially when on the top of the dome a circular craterlet is present, maybe the effusive mouth of the volcano.
		The catalogue of domes of the ALPO (Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers) numbers approximately 600 lunar domes and is in continuous expansion.
	luna.uai.it /domes.htm (953 words)

	Newberry, OR Lunar Landform Geologic Fieldtrip (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Once it was thought that all lunar magmas were of very thin consistency and thus, combined with the low lunar gravity, incapable of building the acccumulative structures like shield volcanos and cinder cones--so these features were then considered rather a mystery.
		Lunar 'cones' are large cinder cones with flattened slopes which simply erupted long enough and volumously enough to eventually build a topographic structure.
		There are shield volcanos in Iceland that are the same dimentions and have the same slope as the lunar domes, so the formative process is thought to be the same for this type of volcano, here on the Earth or on the Moon.
	www.cityastronomy.com /newberry-fieldtrip1.htm (1634 words)

	AS16-1411: Oblique view of Dome-Shaped Structures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The dome in AS16-1411 is 70 times the width of the theoretical resolution of the Apollo mapping camera, which would be almost 3 times better than the resolution of the LO4 image.
		However, the resolution was specified at a contrast ratio of 1000:1 for the Apollo cameras whereas the Lunar Orbiter camera resolution was stated for a contrast ratio of 3:1.
		The pattern in the LO image also appeared to extend from the dome out onto these "arms," although it is clearer in the Apollo image.
	www.vgl.org /webfiles/lan/A16Dome.htm (634 words)

	Newberry, OR Lunar Landform Geologic Fieldtrip
		Once it was thought that all lunar magmas were of very thin consistency and thus, combined with the low lunar gravity, incapable of building the acccumulative structures like shield volcanos and cinder cones--so these features were then considered rather a mystery.
		Lunar 'cones' are large cinder cones with flattened slopes which simply erupted long enough and volumously enough to eventually build a topographic structure.
		The other type of dome has no vent opening and these are thought to be surface features associated with upwellings of magma columns that distorted but failed to rupture the surface and erupt.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /picspace1/newberry-fieldtrip1.htm (1623 words)

	Lunar Domes - Article
		Some lunar domes moreover, show also the presence of small craterlets or fissures in their tops, some of which can be seen with the capability of amateur telescopes of medium diameter.
		The dome by Kies (Mare Nubium) and th dome in the vicinity of the crater Egede (Mare Frigoris) are, also for their dimensions, conspicious, potentially easy, together, also observe the presence of craters on their summits.
		As in the case of the domes near the crater Arago, in the Mare Tranquillitatis, the acquisition of CCD images, by means of a simple geometric deformation, renders evident the low relief of such structures and facilitates the identification with small instruments.
	www.cloudynights.com /item.php?item_id=1399 (1476 words)

	alporeport
		The distribution of domes in the lunar surface favors the Western Hemisphere of the moon.
		The domes may come in many shapes and sizes but the most common ones are hemispherical in shape with a high profile, low non-pointed shadow and sometimes with a central crater on the top.
		The dome seems to be a hemispherical one with a central cleft that bisects it right in the center and forms a continuous line with the Rima Birt.
	digilander.libero.it /gibbidomine/alporeport.htm (1703 words)

	Moon Miners' Manifesto: Lunar Skyscrapers
		The conventional wisdom is that surface-embedded or surface-burrowing lunar settlements will be monotonous complexes of "mole hills" unrelieved except by docking ports, communications antennae and other systems hardware that must be on the surface or surface-exposed.
		For anyone imagineering a lunar surface settlement cozily tucked under its regolith security blanket for protection from the local cosmic weather and for thermal averaging, the idea of a skyscraper-studded "downtown" just did not occur.
		Moon Miners' Manifesto is published 10 times a year by the Lunar Reclamation Society for Artemis Society International, several chapters of the National Space Society, and individual subscribers world-wide.
	www.asi.org /public/asi/09/03/02/111/lunar-skyscrapers.html (1238 words)

	valentinedome
		Lunar domes are gentle swells between 3 and 60 km across, and at most a few hundred meters in height.
		Our study of this elusive dome is the first to be added to the A.L.P.O. Lunar Dome Survey and to include CCD imaging.
		The lunar dome we have described here (0.151+0.528) is located just north of the very well known "Valentine dome".
	digilander.libero.it /gibbidomine/valentinedome.htm (808 words)

	Welcome to Geological Lunar Researches Group
		When ALPO and the BAA first began their dome catalogue, the observers were using different maps, which in turn led to some of the domes in the catalogue being multiple observations of the same dome.
		We have added new domes to the existing lists and are continuing to do so, providing geological information, dome measurements and dome classification by slope and height.
		Red circles are domes that appear in both the catalogues of Kapral and Garfinkle and whose positions agree within 0.1°.
	www.glrgroup.org /lac.htm (545 words)

	Digital elevation maps of lunar surface regions
		Small parts of the lunar surface (not necessarily the most interesting ones with respect to their geologic properties) have been mapped in 3D based on a stereoscopic analysis of image pairs acquired by the Clementine spacecraft and from the Apollo command modules orbiting the Moon.
		For the lunar DEMs presented here, I therefore used my own lunar CCD images obtained with the 125 mm and 200 mm Newton reflectors at a resolution of 0.3-0.45 arcseconds (corresponding to 500-800 m on the lunar surface) per pixel.
		A novel classification scheme for lunar domes is proposed which divides them into several distinct groups, defined by the spectral appearances and 3D shapes of the domes but also strongly correlated with the rheologic parameters.
	www.christian-woehler.de /lunar_dem.html (1376 words)

	Where No Man Has Gone Before, Appendix 3c
		It is recommended that a Lunar Flying Unit be developed immediately to be used in AAP and, if possible, on late Apollo flights to increase the astronaut's mobility range.
		Many scientific experiments appear very promising for lunar exploration but are not feasible now because (1) detector systems have not been developed to the point of having the desired sensitivity, or (2) theoretical problems have not been fully investigated to insure proper design of the experiment or full interpretation of the results.
		Because of the rapid development of suitable launch capability and the growth of an extensive body of photogeologic maps of the lunar surface and because of the lead-times required for development of selected systems, the working groups felt that such analyses are urgent.
	lunar.arc.nasa.gov /archives/documents/SP4214/app3c.html (3520 words)

	Re: A Lunar Colony
		The dome should be made leakproof, it's not that hard, not that much pressure difference.
		That is good logic, and the lunar dome follows that principle: safe because of all the robotic prep work, cheap because of the "mass multiplier" - each 100 kg of robot can get you maybe 100 tonne of habitat if you make it out of basalt and glass.
		The lunar dome won't open for business until it is proven to be operating properly.
	uplink.space.com /printthread.php?Cat=&Board=businesstech&main=303655&type=post (401 words)

	Apollo Era High-Accuracy Depth-Height Measurements for Smaller Nearside Lunar Craters and Other Features - Table of ...
		In the search for lunar ice deposits, Margot (2000) and Campbell (2005) illustrated how the technique is usually used to achieve 400 meter resolution, but can be pushed to a 150 meter horizontal and a 20 meter vertical resolution.
		Margot (1999b) prepared the north and south lunar pole radar interferometer maps of the north and south lunar poles above north-south latitudes 87.5° to a horizontal resolution of 150 meters and a vertical resolution of 50 meters.
		Although focused on lunar ice, the north and south lunar pole digital elevation models prepared by Margot and Campbell could be used to prepare enhanced accuracy crater depth and diameter catalogues, as of this date they have not be used for that purpose.
	members.csolutions.net /fisherka/astronote/plan/craterdepth/CraterDepthsApolloEra.html (6676 words)

	LPOD - Lunar Photo of the Day
		I know what a lunar dome is. Its a perfectly symmetrical mare rise, low-sloped and preferably topped with a summit pit.
		The Hortensius domes and the dome near Kies are the ideals of lunar domes.
		Classic domes like Kies Pi are almost certainly the same types of features as small volcanic shield volcanoes such as occur famously in Iceland and the Snake River Plain in Idaho.
	www.lpod.org /archive/LPOD-2004-07-27.htm (462 words)

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