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Lee Lincoln Scarp at the Apollo 17 Landing Site

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Lee Lincoln Scarp at the Apollo 17 Landing Site

The Lee Lincoln scarp is a low ridge or step about 80 meters high and running north-south through the western end of the Taurus-Littrow valley, site of the Apollo 17 Moon landing. This lobate scarp marks the location of a relatively young, low-angle thrust fault. The land west of the fault was forced up and over the eastern side as the lunar crust contracted. In a May 2019 paper published in Nature Geoscience, Thomas

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Lee Lincoln Scarp at the Apollo 17 Landing Site. Credit: NASA / GSFC.

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