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1.3° N 87.5° E 373 km Mare Spumans: Foaming Sea 1.1° N 65.1° E 139 km Mare Tranquillitatis: Sea of Tranquility 8.5° N 31.4° E 873 km Mare Undarum: Sea of Waves 6.8° N 68.4° E 243 km Mare Vaporum: Sea of Vapors 13.3° N 3.6° E 245 km Oceanus Procellarum: Ocean of Storms 18.4° N 57.4° W 2568 km
They ranged between 45 degrees east and west, and 5 degrees north and south of the center of the Moon's facing side. They were numbered 1 to 5, going from east to west. Site number 2, centered at , was the Sea of Tranquility site ultimately chosen. [2]
Mons Gruithuisen Gamma (γ) is a lunar dome [1] that lies to the north of the crater Gruithuisen at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium. This massif is shaped as a rounded dome in the surface, occupying a diameter of 20 km and climbing gently to a height of over 1500 meters. [2] [3] At the crest is a small crater.
c. 1990 — The Clementine topographic data use 1,737,400 meters as the baseline, and show a range of about 18,100 meters from lowest to highest point on the Moon. This is not a list of the highest places on the Moon, meaning those farthest from the CoM. Rather, it is a list of peaks at various heights relative to the relevant datum.
A view of the Apollo 11 landing site at center, facing west, with the 22km wide Maskelyne crater in right foreground. On February 20, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft was deliberately crashed into the Mare Tranquillitatis at after successfully transmitting 7,137 close-range photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its
Schroter's Valley, frequently known by the Latinized name Vallis Schröteri, is a sinuous valley or rille on the surface of the near side of the Moon. It is located on a rise of continental ground, sometimes called the Aristarchus plateau, that is surrounded by the Oceanus Procellarum to the south and west and the Mare Imbrium to the northwest.
In 1834 Johann Heinrich von Mädler published the first large cartograph (map) of the Moon, comprising 4 sheets, and he subsequently published The Universal Selenography. [3] All lunar measurement was based on direct observation until March 1840, when J.W. Draper , using a 5-inch reflector, produced a daguerreotype of the Moon and thus ...
Simpelius is an impact crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon. It lies to the north-northwest of the somewhat larger crater Schomberger , and east-southeast of the prominent Moretus . The crater area (on the bottom) in a Selenochromatic format Image (Si)