This detailed geologic map of Schrödinger basin, which formed when a huge object struck the moon, reveals a patchwork of lunar material, including the peak ring (inner brown ring), recent volcanic activity (red), cratering (yellow) and plains material (dark green and kelly green). Credit: NASA/Scott Mest Schrödinger is a huge lunar impact crater located near the south lunar pole on the far side of the Moon, and can only be viewed from lunar orbit. A new geologic map of the moon's Schrodinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of what a mash-up the moon's surface is after eons of violent events. The geologic record at Schrödinger is still relatively fresh because the basin is only about 3.8 billion years old; this makes it the moon's second-youngest large basin (it's roughly 320 kilometers, or 200 miles, in diameter).
Elizabeth Zubritsky at NASA Goddard Space tells more about the new geologic lunar map created by Scott Mest and his associates at the Planetary Science Institute, [video].
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