A new crater and boulders tossed out or dislodged to roll around. Click for a larger version ~85k. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

The LROC or the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, has taken some remarkable images here is one of them.

This image shows a crater called Metius B.  Metius B is a small crater “newly formed” on the edge of the much larger crater Metius. I have a link to the LROC site below where you can see both craters in perspective.

Before you go there, I’d like to point out something very interesting:  The image shows where boulders have rolled down the crater walls after being either blown out or simply dislodged during the impact.  Click the image above and check above and to the right of Metius B, you will see the tracks made by the boulders, with the boulders at the end.

Click here for a larger version of some of the tracks and boulders.  I don’t know why I find these so fascinating, but I do.

Visit the LROC site where you can see a link to a zoomable version of this image, it’s very cool.  You will also be able to download the entire raw image, beware, it’s in the vicinity of 250 MB!!