van den Bos

Lat: 5.61°S, Long: 145.85°E, Diam: 25.5 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

Craters van den Bos and nearby Tamm are noticeable on several of Apollo 17's oblique northward looking Fairchild frames in Revolution 27. Of Apollo 17's REV 27, frame AS17-M-0853 shows the couple van den Bos and Tamm immediately north-northeast ("to the right") of Marconi (the pronounced crater a bit leftward of the frame's centre). Both craters (van den Bos and Tamm) seem to have quite a "crackled" floor.
Close ups of the "crackled" floor of van den Bos are depicted at the central parts of Apollo 17's ITEK panoramic stereo-frames AS17-P-1780 and AS17-P-1785.
- Research orbital Apollo 17 photography: Danny Caes
See also the Hi-Res scan of Lunar Orbiter 1's frame 115-h2 (van den Bos's "crackled" floor, depicted near the frame's lower left corner).
During the mission of Apollo 14 in february 1971, light and shadow at van den Bos's crackled floor was photographed by CMP Stuart Roosa on Hasselblad magazine 72-L, of which AS14-72-9954 shows most of its interior.- DannyCaes DannyCaes Jan 29, 2011

Maps

IAU page: van den Bos
van den Bos is a wonderful example of a certain class of surface formations called Floor Fractured Craters (FFC).

W. H. van den Bos in popular scientific literature:
 Burnham's Celestial Handbook.

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