Mare Frigoris
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Mare Frigoris
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Lat: 56.0°N, Long: 1.4°E, Diam: 1,596 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%204 Rükl: 4] |
Table of Contents
[#Mare Frigoris Mare Frigoris]
[#Mare Frigoris-Images Images]
[#Mare Frigoris-Maps Maps]
[#Mare Frigoris-Description Description]
[#Mare Frigoris-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Mare Frigoris-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Mare Frigoris-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Mare Frigoris-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Mare Frigoris-Lunar 100 Lunar 100]
[#Mare Frigoris-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine The dark circular feature below center is the crater [/Plato Plato]. Mare Frigoris is the long dark band above this extending from the far right to the crater [/Harpalus Harpalus] on the left. The dark oval around [/Harpalus Harpalus] was originally known as [/Sinus%20Roris Sinus Roris], but the part to the right of that crater is now considered to be the western end of Mare Frigoris.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- The western part of Mare Frigoris is also seen on an extraordinary painting which was made by Chesley Bonestell, for the magazine Collier's (see: the fourth painting on page Collier's 2, in Fabio Femino's Fantascienza website). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Jan 13, 2008
- A curious field of twisted bay- and arc-shapes (the remains of small craters) is noticeable between La Condamine and J. Herschel (the area of Mare Frigoris north of La Condamine). The upper half of photograph LO IV-145-H3 shows the field of the twisted bay- and arc-shapes. See also LAC 11 (page 22) in Ben Bussey's and Paul Spudis's Clementine Atlas of the Moon.- DannyCaes DannyCaes Nov 18, 2008
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 12C1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Mare area of 320,000 km^2 according to measurements by Jim Whitford-Stark.
- Two small pyroclastic deposits (area = 575 and 1000 km^2). Gaddis, L. (1999) Lunar Pyroclastic Volcanism Project.
Nomenclature
- Mare Frigoris is Latin for "Sea of Cold".
- The eastern portion was named Insula Borealis (Northern Island) in a pre-telescopic sketch map by William Gilbert in ~1600 [ [/Whitaker Whitaker], p 15]
- Called Boreum Mare (Northern Sea) by Gassendi in late 1630s [ [/Whitaker Whitaker], p 33].
- Called Mare Astronomicum (Astronomer's Sea) on Langrenus' 1645 map [ [/Whitaker Whitaker], p 192].
- The name Mare Frigoris was introduced on [/Riccioli Riccioli]'s map. But according to Riccioli's definition, Mare Frigoris ended in the region to the north of the crater now known as [/La%20Condamine La Condamine], and the dark mare patch around [/Harpalus Harpalus] (and extending to the area north of [/La%20Condamine La Condamine]) was regarded as a separate feature called [/Sinus%20Roris Sinus Roris].
- For unknown reasons, subsequent cartographers extended Mare Frigoris to include the dark mare to the east of [/Harpalus Harpalus], but (apparently) not the ones to the west. This pushed [/Sinus%20Roris Sinus Roris] to the west, and left it with an ill-defined status from which it has never recovered.
LPOD Articles
Long, Thin and Yellow A Long, Cold Mare
Lunar 100
[/Lunar%20100 L26]: Arcuate mare of uncertain origin.
Bibliography
- Whitford-Stark (1990) The volcanotectonic evolution of Mare Frigoris
- Wood, C.A. 9/2005. A Basin Too Big to Believe. S&T 110(3):63-64
- Wood, C.A. Jun. 2003. Frigoris and Beyond. S&T June 2003 v105 p112
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