Finer Details of a Lunar Crater

Finer Details of a Lunar Crater, a photo by Lunar and Planetary Institute on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
This image from the Terrain Mapping Camera on the ISRO Chandrayaan lunar orbiter shows the fine details of an impact crater on the Moon's surface. This image shows craters of a wide range of sizes and preservation states, indicative of the variation in sizes of impactors. This image is centered on an old, large crater, and at lower left with this crater is a superposed smaller crater with bright ejecta. The brightness of the ejecta, and presence of bright rays trailing away from the crater indicate that this crater is geologically young, perhaps tens to hundreds of millions of years old or younger. Over time space weathering causes bright ejecta to darken, and the rays eventually disappear.