Monday 26th March 2012 - Boulder tracks in Tsiolkovsky crater

[Geoff]

We haven’t featured boulder tracks for a while so we show some tracks found by user kodemunkey in Tsiolkovsky crater on the far side on the Moon, first posted in the Boulder Tracks thread in October 2011. These tracks are from the central region of Tsiolkovsky crater, in the orange oval in this image:


from: LROC WMS Image Map tool


Strip: M139063316RE




Tsiolkovsky Crater
Wonderful image of Tsiolkovsky Crater from NASA

Apollo 15 Tsiolkovsky Crater
Tsiolkovsky Crater from the Apollo 15 CMS

Central Peak/Mare Boundary
LROC article about the central peak of Tsiolkovsky showing boulder tracks.

[kodemunkey]

Those are some odd looking tracks, did they slide down?

[jules]

Do I see an expolded boulder in the second picture?

[Geoff]

One of the boulders in the centre of the second picture looks like it was in the path of the boulder at the bottom and has had bits knocked off.
At the top left there may be a boulder that has broken up.

[jules]

it's the one in the centre I was looking at - maybe a collision then.