Tall Cone Rock

This object in the center of this image is 15m tall and 7m in diameter, given that the sun is about 17 degrees above the horizon and the shadow is about 50m long.

LRO dataset M1424544254RC

Bright Meteor

A bright meteor exploded over northern Sonora Mexico the other morning (20 June 2026, 11:06:08 UTC) as seen from one of my Global Meteor Network cameras (located southeastern Arizona USA):

crater shape

Circle?

Pentagon?

Hexagon?

LRO Dataset M1465577656LC

Definitely a Hole

Sometimes it's obvious that it's a hole in the center.  Why and how are these formed?  TBD I hope.

This is from LRO dataset M1502023627LC:

Dark Spots in Lunar Craters

I see an unusual number of these: dark spots right in the center of craters.  This one is typical:

from LRO dataset M1502023137RC.

Pixels in this image are about 1 meter in size, which makes the crater wall about 30 meters in diameter, with the dark spot in the middle about 10 meters in diameter.

Lunar Anomalies #13

A strange looking crater in LRO dataset M1502022708LC:

Lunar Anomalies #12

An unusually shaped large (about 8 meters across) rock, from LRO dataset M1502016457RC:

and in LRO dataset M1502021744LC, there's an oddly shaped outcropping of rock: