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File:Zwicky N crater AS17-P-1931.jpg

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English: Apollo 17 photo of Zwicky N, an unusual crater that lies within the interior of the larger Zwicky crater. The description of the photography:
"A panoramic camera view of an unusual crater on the lunar far side, west of the large crater Aitken. The crater is polygonal in outline, its rim is not raised, and its walls are relatively smooth. The floor of the crater is occupied by a rather dark material with numerous cracks. This pattern has been informally referred to as a turtleback crater floor (El-Baz and Roosa, 1972). It occurs only in a few craters on the lunar surface and is probably caused by the cooling of a molten or partially molten fill within the crater. However, cracking due to tectonic movement (for example, the upward thrust of a central plug) cannot be excluded."—NASA SP-362, Page 221, Figure 236.
The crater Zwicky was apparently named at a date following the release of this photograph.
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Source http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/ch7.2.htm
primary source: Apollo 17 image AS17-P-1931
Author NASA
This image or video was catalogued by one of the centers of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: AS17-P-1931.

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