Mees
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Mees
| Lat: 13.6°N, Long: 96.1°W, Diam: 50 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
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[#Mees Mees]
[#Mees-Images Images]
[#Mees-Maps Maps]
[#Mees-Description Description]
[#Mees-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Mees-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Mees-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Mees-LROC Articles LROC Articles]
[#Mees-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-188M Mees is the moderate-sized crater below center. The shadows make it appear that it has a convex floor. Touching Mees on the north is 85-km Mees Y. The dark mare region on the floor of Mees Y (mentioned by Danny Caes) is clearer in a high Sun Clementine view. Straddling the east rim of Mees Y is 36-km Mees A. The other named [/satellite%20feature satellite features] in this view are 26-km Mees J (to the southeast of Mees), 19-km [/Sundman Sundman] V (beyond Mees J in the lower right corner) and 24-km [/Nobel Nobel] B (touching the left margin in the upper left corner). The remaining features are not named.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 72B1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- From the shadows in LO-IV-188M, the height of the east wall of Mees ranges from about 1800 m in the north to 3000 m in the south. Mees Y appears to be about 3500 m deep (where its rim is not broken by Mees A). The off-central peak of Mees Y is 1700 m tall. - JimMosher JimMosher Dec 16, 2007
- On the floor of Mees Y is a dark [/Lacus Lacus]-like spot. It's about the same size as the three named Lacus'es on the Moon's far side: [/Lacus%20Luxuriae Lacus Luxuriae] (near [/Buys-Ballot Buys-Ballot]), [/Lacus%20Oblivionis Lacus Oblivionis] (near [/Sniadecki Sniadecki]), and [/Lacus%20Solitudinis Lacus Solitudinis] (near [/Bowditch Bowditch]). The dark spot on the floor of Mees Y is seen on the [/Clementine Clementine] photographs which occupy the lower margin of LAC 54 and the upper margin of LAC 72 in the [/Clementine%20Atlas Clementine Atlas] by Ben Bussey and Paul Spudis (pages 108 and 144). It is also seen on photographs made by several of the Russian [/Lunar%20Missions ZOND] probes, such as ZOND 8: Frame X2. On this photograph, the dark spot on the floor of Mees Y is seen "rightward" of [/Mare%20Orientale Mare Orientale], and "above" the [/Eddington Eddington]/[/Russell Russell]/[/Struve Struve] complex, which is located on the most western part of [/Oceanus%20Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum]. Mees Y is not unique: a number of the Moon's other craters have dark mare patches on their floors. [/Schl%C3%BCter Schlüter] is a well-known and similar example. - DannyCaes DannyCaes Dec 16, 2007
- The somewhat elongated dark lacus-like spot of Mees Y is also noticeable in a remarkable view of the moon's western hemisphere, composed of LRO frames, detectable to the lower right of crater Ohm's chevron shaped ray system, see LPOD Fictitious Moon.
- According to Wikipedia, Lunar Orbiter 3 impacted northwest of Mees (14.3° North/ 97.7° West).
Nomenclature
- Named for Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1882-1960), a British-born pioneer in the science of photography. According to the IAU citation he organized the Eastman Kodak Research Lab and directed its studies on photographic processes, panchromatic plates and light filters for photography. This research led to development of the high-sensitivity emulsions used in much of 20th century film-based astronomy.
- Mees was in the long list of farside names approved by the [/IAU IAU] in 1970 and published in Menzel, 1971.
- Lacus Mees (D.Caes's unofficial name for the low-albedo spot Mees Y, just north of Mees).
- Rima Mees Y (a dedicated rille seeker's unofficial name for the sinuous rille slightly north of Mees Y, see: http://bit.ly/2fpOyMh ) (this sinuous rille is not included in Debra Hurwitz's Atlas of Lunar Sinuous Rilles).
LROC Articles
Making an Impact (Mees Y, the low-albedo spot just north of Mees, aka "Lacus Mees").
Bibliography
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