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STOR ® Farouk El-Baz Al-Khwarizmi: A New-Found Basin on the Lunar Far Side STOR ® Farouk El-Baz Science, New Series, Vol. 180, No. 4091. (Jun. 15, 1973), pp. 1173-1176. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-8075%2819730615%293%3A180%3A4091%3C1173%3AAANBOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S Science is currently published by American Association for the Advancement of Science. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/aaas.html. 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From the gradient dominates irregular variations homogeneous, case, primarily because hydrodynamic equations it is possible so that the constant-period surfaces re- of its sensitivity to the rate of stirring. to estimate the size of this effect and main nearly horizontal. The density This appears to be due to the effect of show it to be approximately what one gradient prevents convective motion. stirring on the transfer of gases (such observes in the downward curving of Hence, the horizontal bands due to, as Br,, O2) across the free surface the bands (8). The exothermicity alone, say, a sulfuric acid gradient may be ex- (S). Another complicating factor is that without the period gradient, cannot pected to be stable. When there is no the period changes slowly with age in a cause the propagation of the bands or associated density gradient (for ex- manner that appears to depend on the keep them horizontal (8); indeed the ample, with a cerium gradient) the temperature, gas transfer, and so forth pulses of heat given off by the reaction bands are much less stable. throughout the previous evolution of cause very little fluid motion, and what- N. KOPELL the reaction. Nevertheless, on the ever there is tends to increase rather Department of Mathematics, whole, such measurements of the peri- than decrease any perturbation of the Northeastern University, od at different temperatures seemed to bands from the horizontal. Boston, Massachusetts 02115 agree with what one deduces from pic- Another effect partially due to kine- L. N. HOWARD tures like Fig. 2 in the thermally strati- matic mechanisms is the rapid loss of Department of Mathematics, fied case. all temporal or spatial structure in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, As the scale of the bands becomes solution when it is placed in a beaker Cambridge 02139 finer it must be expected that eventu- with no external gradient and not References and Notes ally diffusion will begin to play a role. stirred. Our experiments show that in 1. B. P. Belousov, in Sb. Re). Radiât. Med. One can construct mathematical models this situation the reaction is still oscil- (Collection of abstracts on radiation medi- lating at each point in the fluid, but at cine) (Medgiz, Moscow, 1959), p. 145. which show that diffusion can counter 2. R. M. Noyes, R. J. Field, E. Körös, 1. Amer. the imposed period gradient to stop the somewhat different frequencies (pos- Chem. Soc. 94, 1394 (1972). 3. A. M. Zhabotinskii, Dokl Aliad. Nauk SSSR formation of an ever-finer scale struc- sibly because of temperature fluctua- 157, 392 (1964); V. A. Vavilin and A. M. ture and lead to a situation in which the tions), so that the phases are random. Zhabotinskii, Kinet. Ratal 10, 83, 657 (1969); H. Degn, Nature 213, 589 (1967); G. J. frequency is uniform (even though the Also, in the absence of the external Kasparek and T. C. Bruice, Inorg. Chem. basic concentration gradient remains). density gradient, temperature differ- 10, 382 (1971); R. M. Noyes, R. J. Field, R. C. Thomson, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 93, However, we estimated that, within our ences due to the heating from the reac- 7315 (1971). concentration ranges, this would fake tion and cooling along the boundaries 4. J. F. Lefelhocz, /. Chem. Educ. 49, 312 (1972). an amount of time on the order of the are enough to drive irregular convective 5. H. G. Busse, /. Phys. Chem. 73, 750 (1969). motion of the fluid. Patterns formed in 6. A. N. Zaikin and A. M. Zhabotinskii, Nature lifetime of the overall reaction (8). (It 225, 535 (1970). takes far longer•approximately a this situation by kinematic mechanisms 7. R. J. Field and R. M. Noyes, ibid. 237, 390 (1972); R. J. Field, /. Chem. Educ. 49, 308 month•for the basic concentration are irregular because of the random (1972); A. T. Winfree, Science 175, 634 gradient to diffuse away.) Hence we do fluctuations in temperature, and they (1972). 8. L. N. Howard and N. Kopell, in preparation. not have any experimental evidence of are further convoluted by the convec- 9. N, Kopell and L. N. Howard, in preparation. the role of diffusion in the band pat- tive motion. Hence, after a short time, 10. The mixture consisted of 0.3M malonic acid, 0.08A/ potassium brómate, 0.002AÍ cerous terns. there is no visible structure. sulfate, 0.75 to 2.2AÍ sulfuric acid, and The kinematic model also predicts The horizontal bands described here 0.0006M ferroin. The temperature was 25 °C. 11. Supported by the National Science Founda- some other effects that are observed. are quite stable, and a visible structure tion. For example, if there is a gradient of remains for some time. In this case 12 February 1973 • HoSO., (so that propagation is upward), the bands tend to curve downward near the walls. The kinematic mechanism says that even if the phases are a func- Al-Khwarizmi: A New-Found Basin on the Lunar Far Side tion not only of height, z, but also of some horizontal coordinate y, the fronts Abstract. Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 photographs of the far side of the moon ¿f>(z,x,/) = Ink will approach the reveal a double-ringed basin 500 kilometers in diameter centered at 1°N, 112°E. horizontal as long as the period is just The structure is very old and subdued; it is probably Pre-Nectarian in age and a function of height. For then ^{z,x,t) appears to have been filled and modified by younger events. The heights of the = *(z,/)-(-<ï>o (z,x,t), where * is basin's rings are based on laser altimeter data from Apollo missions 15 through as before and <t>o is the initial distribu- 17; these data suggest a third outer ring, approximately 1000 kilometers in tion of phases. As before, the initial diameter. Laser measurements also indicate that the filled basin separates the conditions wash out. In general, the relatively low terrain on the eastern limb of the moon from the higher, more bands tend toward the shape of the sur- rugged highlands to the east. faces of constant period. If the only factor affecting the period is concentra- In the course of planning orbital this region of the farside highlands. tion and if this is tied to density, these photography and visual observations on They described the King crater area, constant-period surfaces will be hori- Apollo missions 15 through 17, the previously labeled the "Soviet Moun- zontal. However, the period of the Be- astronauts and I studied the interesting tains" (2), as a plateau, a gentle rise lousov oscillation is also affected by crater King and its environs (i). The which they compared to another rise temperature. Since the reaction is exo- pilots of the command modules of the around the crater Saenger (4.5 °N, thermic, the fluid near the walls of the three missions took photographs and 102.5°E). container is somewhat cooler, and so it made visual observations of features in Study of the Apollo photographic 15 JUNE 1973 1173 itm^\ records revealed the presence in the region of a large, multiringed basin centered at 1°N, 112°E. The afore- mentioned plateaus form parts of the basin's rings that are also shown in earlier Lunar Orbiter photographs (Fig. 1). However, the discovery of the basin was made possible by the more complete Apollo metric and panoramic camera records. The basin displays two distinct rings with a third probable outer ring. Cor- relation of the basin's morphology with that of other lunar basins suggests that it is Pre-Nectarian in age; it is probably among the oldest basins with visible remains on the lunar surface.
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