Albedo is the measure of brightness or the proportion of light reflected from a surface, with a dark object having a low albedo. “This is the first time there has been a demonstrated correlation between the swirl albedo patterns and topography,” said PSI Senior Scientist Deborah Domingue, lead author of “ Topographic Correlations within Lunar Swirls in Mare Ingenii” that appears in Geophysical Research Letters. The images are from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) extracted from the LROC quickmap ( ).īright and dark swirling patterns on the Moon’s surface have been linked to the topography of the swirls, says a new paper by a team of scientists from the Planetary Science Institute. The bright and dark swirl pattern is stark against the lunar mare terrain.
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