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Meet The Titanosaur!  🦕 At 122 ft (37.2 m) long, Patagotitan mayorum is the Museum’s largest dinosaur on display and one of the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth! This gigantic herbivore, which lived some 95 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous, was heavier than 10 African elephants—tipping the scales at roughly 70 tons. In fact, The Titanosaur is so big that it barely fits in the Museum’s halls: It’s longer than the gallery it sits in—and its head, which would graze the ceiling, extends outwards toward the elevator banks! Spot this sauropod, and so much more, at the Museum. Plan your visit.

HiPOD: Lava in Kasei Valles

Lava entered this cataract from the west and flowed for some distance, but the flow terminates before joining the main south Kasei lava flow. Does the flow shows signs of significant deflation (i.e., does it drape topography?). If there was a high but short peak flux here, the flow could have deflated significantly as the pulse went down the channel. A lack of deflation would suggest a lower but maybe steadier flux.

Grayscale cutout is less than 5 km across; enhanced color cutout is less than 1 km. For full image including scale bar, visit the source link.

ID: ESP_077122_2025 date: 8 January 2023 altitude: 283 km

2026 July 10

Western Moon, Eastern Sea Image Credit & Copyright: Guy Bardon

Explanation: The Mare Orientale, Latin for Eastern Sea, is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. The youngest of the large lunar impact basins it’s very difficult to see from an earthbound perspective. Still, captured on July 7 during a period of favorable tilt, or libration of the lunar nearside, the Eastern Sea can be found at the upper right in this sharp telescopic view. In the image, the large lunar mare is extremely foreshortened and stretches along the Moon’s western edge. Formed by the impact of an asteroid over 3 billion years ago and nearly 1000 kilometers across, the impact basin’s concentric circular features are ripples in the lunar crust. But they are a little easier to spot in more direct images of the region taken from lunar orbit. So why is the Eastern Sea at the Moon’s western edge? The Mare Orientale lunar feature was named before 1961. That’s when the convention labeling east and west on lunar maps was reversed.