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Sinus Aestuum
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Lat: 12.19°N, Long: 6.62°W, Diam: 316.5 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 32 |
Sinus Aestuum in the local morning (left) and local noon (right). LRO
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- Apollo 12's Hasselblad photograph AS12-50-7434 shows an oblique northward view of Sinus Aestuum's eastern part (foreground) with bowl-shaped craters Bode C and H, and the Montes Apenninus below centre of the image. Research Danny Caes
- Apollo 17's Nikon photograph AS17-160-23946 shows a north-south oriented view of Sinus Aestuum (mentioned as Seething Bay) east of Eratosthenes (right margin). Part of Montes Apenninus is seen at the image's lower half. Research Danny Caes
Maps
(LAC zone 59A4) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Sinus Aestuum
- Mare area of 39,600 km^2 according to measurements by Jim Whitford-Stark.
- LROC view of dark mantled deposits around Sinus Aestuum region.
Nomenclature
- Sinus Aestuum was part of the original IAU nomenclature of Blagg and Müller (1935).
- Section of the Face of the Woman in the Moon.
- Section of Ed Murray's C or Dark C.
- The name Sinus Aestuum is Latin, according to the IAU, for "Seething Bay", or according to Whitaker, "Bay of Seething Heat" (p. 87) or "Bay of Hot Days" (p. 216).
- In a review of their book in the February 1955 JBAA (page 121), Whitaker criticizes Wilkins and Moore for translating the name as "Bay of Heat," saying the correct translation is "Bay of Billows."
- According to Whitaker (pp. 216-217), this name was introduced by Riccioli, although Riccioli used it for the feature now known as Sinus Medii. Blagg, in her Collated List (#1270), found the present feature labeled with its modern name by all the authorities she consulted. Whitaker does not specify who moved it to its present location.
- Van Langren had previously referred to this area (plus Mare Vaporum) as Fretum Catholicum (Whitaker, pp. 192 and 200).
- Aestuum Pyroclastics, an unofficial name on chart 17 of the 21st Century Atlas of the Moon (C.A. Wood/ M. Collins). The location of the Aestuum Pyroclastics is north-northwest of Schroter, at the same location of F.v.P. Gruithuisen's so called "lunar city".
LROC Articles
A Path Not Taken
DMD Excavations
Pyroclastic Trails
Striped Crater
LPOD Articles
What's happening at Aestuum? A radial section of debris
Lunar 100
- L79: Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit.
Bibliography
Wood, C.A. 8/2005. Pyroclastics on the Moon. S&T 110(2):62-63
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