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TONIGHT'S clear evening with stable skies was brightly illuminated by the half moon.
Contrasted with the smooth darker plains of the Seas of Fertility, Tranquility and Serenity are the scars of billions of years of asteroid impacts. The sun shines high and directly on the craters to the left, making them appear muted and featureless. The craters to the right on the other hand are sharply contrasted as the sun rises on the beginning of the month-long day.
The deep craters show the enormous impacts by asteroids, sometimes spreading debris for many hundreds of kilometres shown by streaky lines radiating from the craters. The Arennine Mountains streaking across the bottom half of the image along the twilight zone between the Sea of Serenity and the hidden Sea of Showers also captures the lunar sunrise.
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