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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=168&fullsize=1 [[Image:normal_Marginis-Mare-iv165-h3.jpg|external image normal_Marginis-Mare-iv165-h3.jpg]]][http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=2340&fullsize=1 [[Image:normal_Marginis_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG|external image normal_Marginis_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG]]]<br />  Left: ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-168 LOIV-165-H3]'', Right: ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2340 Clementine]'', Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from [http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/lidrlvls.htm PDS Map-a-Planet] remapped to north-up aerial view by [http://www.henriksucla.dk/ LTVT]. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/Lunar%20Basins.htm Impact Basin Database]. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.<br /> <br /> <div id="toc">
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=168&fullsize=1 [[Image:normal_Marginis-Mare-iv165-h3.jpg|external image normal_Marginis-Mare-iv165-h3.jpg]]][http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=2340&fullsize=1 [[Image:normal_Marginis_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG|external image normal_Marginis_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG]]]<br />  Left: ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-168 LOIV-165-H3]'', Right: ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2340 Clementine]'', Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from [http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/lidrlvls.htm PDS Map-a-Planet] remapped to north-up aerial view by [http://www.henriksucla.dk/ LTVT]. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/Lunar%20Basins.htm Impact Basin Database]. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.<br /> <br /> <div id="toc">
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<div style="margin-left: 1em">[#Marginis Basin Marginis Basin]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Images Images]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Maps Maps]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Description Description]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Lunar 100 Lunar 100]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Marginis Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]</div></div>
 
 
==Images==
 
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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mare%20Marginis LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mare%20Marginis%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Mare%20Marginis Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mare%20Marginis LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mare%20Marginis%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Mare%20Marginis Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
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Revision as of 16:37, 15 April 2018

Marginis Basin

(unofficial name; IAU feature name for central 420 km of mare: Mare Marginis)

Lat: 13.3°N, Long: 86.1°E, Main ring diam: 580 km, Depth: km, Rükl 38

external image normal_Marginis-Mare-iv165-h3.jpgexternal image normal_Marginis_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG
Left: LOIV-165-H3, 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.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 63B2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
LTO map

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
Uncertain
 Pre-Nectarian
 2
 580


Description


Description: Wikipedia

Mare Marginis

Additional Information


Nomenclature

The IAU feature name means "Sea of the Edge".
  • Named by Franz: Whitaker: Mapping and Naming the Moon, p 225.
  • The impact basin is named after the mare.
  • A set of dark mare-like regions west of Mare Marginis and east of Alhazen - Hansen has been unofficially named Lacus Risus Felis by Charles Wood (Sky and Telescope, June 2000, p. 118; and Wood, 2003 -- see LPOD link, below).


LPOD Articles

Marginal Maria Beyond the Cat's Smile (Lacus Risus Felis and Mare Marginis)

Lunar 100

L100: Possible magnetic field deposits (swirl)

Bibliography

Wood, C.A. 11/2005. Mysteries of the Eastern Limb. S&T 110(5):62-63
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