Sinus Asperitatis
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Sinus Asperitatis
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Lat: 3.8°S, Long: 27.4°E, Diam: 206 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 47 |
Clementine
The pronounced crater near the lower margin of this Clementine photograph is Theophilus.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images (the name Sinus Asperitatis is not mentioned in the search engine of the Apollo Image Atlas) (to compile an additional list of orbital Apollo photographs of this region north of Theophilus would be interesting).
Maps
(LAC zone 78B2) LAC map Geologic map LM map AIC map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- A somewhat fork- or branch-shaped rille at 6°20' South/ 24°30' East (between Theophilus and Hypatia, in Sinus Asperitatis), is described and depicted in NASA SP-362, APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 3), Figure 136. Detection of this rille's exact location: Danny Caes.
Nomenclature
- The IAU name is Latin for "Bay of Roughness".
- This name was not part of the original IAU nomenclature. It is one of the 120 names on LTO charts approved by the IAU in 1976
- Perhaps interesting to add something in here about a certain terrestrial cloud formation called Asperitas, and also about one of the early observers and photographers of this cloud formation: Margaret Anne LeMone
LPOD Articles
Ring Around a Basin Another kind of melt
Almost Microgeology (George Tarsoudis's pre-sunset photograph of the Hypatia-Torricelli-Theophilus region)
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