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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>M. H. Carr</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1970</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="TextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;This map shows the geology in and around potential early Apollo landing site 1 in the lunar equatorial belt. The Maskelyne DA region, at the southeastern edge of the Mare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;ranquillitatis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;, is in the area transitional between mare and terra. Patches of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;typical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt; terra material occur on northwest-trending &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;ridges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;, and typical heavily cratered mare materials &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;occurs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt; only in the east-central part of the region. The terrain in the rest of the region, including the potential landing site, is exceptionally smooth and deficient in craters more than 50 m (meters) in diameter. A &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;large cratered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt; dome, possibly indicative of late-stage volcanism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;ccurs in the southern part of the region. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;Telescopically, the terrain over most of the region resembles that of mare areas with intermediate albedo; hence, at a scale of 1:1,000,000 the materials here were mapped as unit Ipm2 of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;Procellarum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt; Group (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;Wilhelms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW154141912 BCX8"&gt;, 1965).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="EOP SCXW154141912 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{&amp;quot;134233117&amp;quot;:true,&amp;quot;134233118&amp;quot;:true,&amp;quot;201341983&amp;quot;:0,&amp;quot;335559739&amp;quot;:160,&amp;quot;335559740&amp;quot;:240}"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3133/i616</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>(ORB II-2 (100)) Geologic map of the Maskelyne DA region of the moon, Lunar Orbiter site II P-2, southeastern Mare Tranquillitatis including Apollo landing site l</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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