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Vallis Schröteri is a magnificent sinuous rille and of particular interest is its inner rille, which diverges from the primary rille near the arrow. This nested form indicates that multiple eruptive events occurred or there was a large change in the volume of a single eruption over time. LROC WAC mosaic, 100 meters/pixel (328 feet/pixel).

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center built and manages the mission for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera was designed to acquire data for landing site certification and to conduct polar illumination studies and global mapping. Operated by Arizona State University, LROC consists of a pair of narrow-angle cameras (NAC) and a single wide-angle camera (WAC). The mission is expected to return over 70 terabytes of image data. 

Image Addition Date: 2010-12-02 

SOURCE: NASA PIA13688: Secrets of Schröteri
Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13688.tif (2.253 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13688.jpg (340.7 kB)

Now with a name loke that, "Secrets of Schröteri", Exhuberant1 just had to look for this 'secret'. Below is what he found...

SOURCE: M129635733RE

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Here is an image I was using to try to describe what we might be seeing. The shadowsketch on the right is just a rough paint sketch done for speculative purposes. I think I got the 'dish' portion wrong.

We don't know if it is a buggy yet. Right now it is the lunar version of the Schrodinger cat; the anomaly is both simultaneously rocks and a rover. When we get better data, we will know which one it ultimately is.

Originally posted by Mclaneinc

Love the thread..

It may sound silly but that object looks like some sort of mech (as in walking robot).

Are there any other scans of this area from different times to see time scale of movement? [/quote]