Sinus Medii
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Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)
| Lat: 2.4°N, Long: 1.7°E, Diam: 335 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 33 |
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[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6) Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Images Images]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Maps Maps]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Description Description]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Possible swirl field west of Sinus Medii? Possible swirl field west of Sinus Medii?]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Sinus Medii (crash site of Surveyor 4 and landing site of Surveyor 6)-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine Sinus Medii is the [/mare mare] patch in the lower right. The crater touching the upper left corner is [/Eratosthenes Eratosthenes]. The large mare patch to its immediate lower right is [/Sinus%20Aestuum Sinus Aestuum], with [/Mare%20Vaporum Mare Vaporum] in the upper right. It is unclear if the smaller patches connecting [/Sinus%20Aestuum Sinus Aestuum] to Sinus Medii are regarded as part of one, the other, or neither.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- Close ups of Sinus Medii: Lunar Orbiter 3's frames 3086 to 3101. Research Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 59C4) LAC map Geologic map AIC map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Mare area of 18,000 km^2 according to measurements by Jim Whitford-Stark.
- Frame 3084, an oblique image made by Lunar Orbiter 3, shows the part of Sinus Medii near the bowl-shaped craters Bruce and Blagg, and somewhere on LO3-084-h2 (a close-up of the area west-southwest of Bruce) should be the small impact-ejectablanket of Surveyor 4. Research Danny Caes
- See also: Lunar Heliotrope Project (Project PHAROS)
Possible swirl field west of Sinus Medii?
- The officially unnamed mare-like region west of Sinus Medii (between Sinus Medii and Schroter) might show a possible field of Reiner Gamma type swirls. It (this possible swirl field) could be investigated on the shadowless WAC mosaic of the LROC's Act-React Quick Map. See the short link to this (suspected) region: http://bit.ly/1Qwv2el (this possible swirl field was discovered, or perhaps re-discovered, by - DannyCaes DannyCaes Jan 26, 2016).
Nomenclature
- Sinus Medii was part of the original IAU nomenclature of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (1935).
- The name is Latin for "Bay of the center".
- Section of the Face of the Woman in the Moon.
- Section of Ed Murray's C or Dark C.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] the name has gone through many permutations: named Insula Medilunaria (Middlemoon Island) on a pre-telescopic sketch map by William Gilbert in ~1600 (p. 15), Sinus Medius (Middle Bay) by Van Langren (1645), Mare Adriaticum by Hevelius (1647), [/Sinus%20Aestuum Sinus Aestuum] by Riccioli (1651), Insula Sinus Medii (Island of the Middle Bay) by Cassini (1692), Sinus Medii by J. Bode (1780), Sinus Medius (again) by Gruithuisen (~1825), then Sinus Medii (again) by [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] (~1837) and by [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison] (1876).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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