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It is reported to be simply a
small crater half filled with slide debris from the massif. This is where I find
a conundrum. Note the lighter albedo of the debris field leading away from it. Naturally, it would
have material in it deposited from up the slope given erosional processes at work on the moon, but the orbital images
show it to be far more complex than that. A material slide off of South
Massif of the magnitude needed to have reached as far out as is shown would
have taken large portion of the massif with it, and surely filled a small crater in, not just partially filled one side
of it. From this and other photos, it appears this "crater" is very unnatural. In fact it appears rather rectangular, and very much darker than
its surroundings. This is a point to remember as we look at further photos. This was the main target of Apollo 17; Geology Station 2 on the lunar traverse. They traveled approximately 8 km away from the safety of the lunar module to get there, across many various obstacles. Something was apparently very important about this area other than geology. This composite image shows AS15-9297 in relation to AS17-m-1218. Here's
a very shortened chronology of the stay on the surface.
I have here the labeled traverses by day and have arrowed Geology Station 2 at Nansen. According to scale, it is approximately 600 meters wide and very dark inside. The shadow in it is quite anomalous and does not agree with the sun angle as averaged from the shadows of the myriad other features within Here is another view of it's immediate surroundings from even closer. The sun was at a little higher an angle in this picture, yet the darkness and angularity of the Nansen's inside is still evident despite the brightness of its environment. Instead of landslide debris as is the explanation for this bright area, it appears to be the blast debris of an internal pressure release event originating from within the massif and combined with or patchily covered with a resulting slide. South Massif has obvious visual signals of catastrophic collapse on its back side which reinforces this idea. You can see from the marked traverse path that Cernan and Schmitt went right for that huge "Nansen" hole in the side of the massif. Now we'll look at it up close from a different map with yet another lighting angle. In both the mapped traverse images shown here, the plain out rough fractally linear and geometrically angular appearance of both Nansen and the brighter landslide area are obvious.
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