This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the inside of crater Schiller on the Moon.
AMIE obtained this sequence on 13 January 2006 from a distance ranging between about 812 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 74 metres per pixel. The imaged area is centred at a latitude of 51.9º South and longitude 40º West.
The inside of the large crater Schiller has a fairly flat surface covered with younger small bowl-shaped impact craters. On this image, evidence for volcanism on the Moon is visible. In the upper-right quadrant of the image there is a dome-shaped object called a lava dome. It forms when viscous lava extrudes to the surface and slowly builds up the dome.