English: Impact melt features near King, on the moon. Approximate north at top. Figure 3.36 of The Geologic History of the Moon (see source). The caption of this image is as follows: Lineations and festoons indicating flow of impact melt in exterior pool of crater King (fig. 3.23A). Melt has flowed over rim material and collected in depressions (Howard and Wilshire, 1975).
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published 1987, original 1972
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Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
(Original text: Apollo 16 Panoramic camera image AS16-P-5000 The original image is in the public domain because it is a work of the U.S. Government (NASA). Immediate source: Figure 3.36 of The geologic history of the Moon, 1987, Wilhelms, Don E.; with sections by McCauley, John F.; Trask, Newell J. USGS Professional Paper: 1348. link to abstract and full PDF)
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