Mare Nectaris

Nectaris Basin

(unofficial name; IAU feature name for central 333 km of mare: Mare Nectaris)

Lat: 15.2°S, Long: 35.5°E, Diam: 333 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2058 Rükl: 58]

Left: Howard Eskildsen.
Right: Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.

Table of Contents

[#Nectaris Basin Nectaris Basin]

[#Nectaris Basin-Images Images]

[#Nectaris Basin-Maps Maps]

[#Nectaris Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]

[#Nectaris Basin-Description Description]

[#Nectaris Basin-Description: Elger Description: Elger]

[#Nectaris Basin-Description: Wikipedia: Description: Wikipedia:]

[#Nectaris Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Nectaris Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Nectaris Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Nectaris Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
AS08-13-2243; which is an orbital Hasselblad photograph made during the first manned mission of Project Apollo (Apollo 8 in december 1968), shows the sunrise terminator over the western part of Mare Nectaris, with the ruined crater Daguerre in the foreground (looking southward).
Apollo 11's orbital photographs AS11-42-6235, AS11-42-6236, AS11-42-6237, and AS11-42-6241 show the same area of Mare Nectaris as depicted in Apollo 8's low-sun orbital view in AS08-13-2243.
Research orbital Hasselblads: Danny Caes.

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 79D3) LAC map Geologic map
 
 

[/Lunar%20Basins Basin Classification]

(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
 

Certainty of Existence	USGS Age	Wilhelms Age Group	Ring Diameters	Mare Thickness	Mascon
Certain	Nectarian	10	240, 400, 620, 860, 1320 km	0.8-1.2 km	Yes; +70 mG gravity anomaly

Description

Description: Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) The Mare Nectaris, again, in the south-eastern quadrant, presents some fine examples of concentric ridges, which are seen to the best advantage when the morning sun is rising on [/Rosse Rosse], a prominent crater north of [/Fracastorius Fracastorius]. This "sea" is evidently concave in cross-section, the central portion being considerably lower than the margin, and these ridges appear to mark the successive stages of the change of level from the coast-line to the centre. They suggest the "caving in" of the surface, similar to that observed on a frozen pond or river, where the "cat's ice" at the edge, through the sinking of the water beneath, is rent and tilted to a greater or less degree.
 
 

Description: Wikipedia:

Mare Nectaris

Additional Information

• Mare area of 84,100 km^2 according to measurements by Jim Whitford-Stark.

Nomenclature

The IAU feature name means "Sea of Nectar".
 

• The impact basin is named after the mare.

LPOD Articles

• Moving West.
• Ring Around a Basin.
• A Large but Subtle Dome
• Chameleon Surface
• Huge Fractures
• Inside Nectaris
• [/LPOD%20Feb%204%2C%202008 Four Rings and a Mystery]

Bibliography

• Chauhan, P. et al (2011). Studies of Lunar Dark-halo Craters in Northwestern Mare Nectaris Using High Resolution Chandrayaan-1 Data – 42nd LPSC Conference (Mar), 2011.
• Spudis, P. D.; Hawke, B. R.; Lucey, P. G. 1989. Geology and deposits of the lunar Nectaris basin. in Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 19th, Houston, TX, Mar. 14-18, 1988, pp. 51-59.
• Wood, C.A. 20__. Rings and Things. Sky and Telescope online article
• Whitford-Stark, J.L. (1981) The evolution of the lunar Nectaris multiring basin, Icarus 48, 393-427.

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