File:LUNAR ORBITER PAGE - Limb of Copernicus Impact Crater.jpg

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Description	Original Caption Released with Image: Copernicus is 93 km wide and is located within the Mare Imbrium Basin, northern nearside of the Moon (10 degrees N., 20 degrees W.). Image shows crater floor, floor mounds, rim, and rayed ejecta. Rays from the ejecta are superposed on all other surrounding terrains which places the crater in its namesake age group: the Copernican system, established as the youngest assemblage of rocks on the Moon (Shoemaker and Hackman, 1962, The Moon: London, Academic Press, p.289- 300).
Date	1966
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00094
Author	NASA/JPL/USGS

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