Lacus Veris
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Lacus Veris
(original IAU name: Mare Veris)
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Lat: 16.5°S, Long: 86.1°W, Diam: 396 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2050 Rükl: 50] |
Table of Contents
[#Lacus Veris Lacus Veris]
[#Lacus Veris-Images Images]
[#Lacus Veris-Maps Maps]
[#Lacus Veris-Description Description]
[#Lacus Veris-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Lacus Veris-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Lacus Veris-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Lacus Veris-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Lacus Veris-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine Lacus Veris refers to the long skinny chain of mare "lakes" extending through the center of this image. The detached part in the upper right is separately known as [/Lacus%20Autumni Lacus Autumni], while the much broader piece in the lower left is [/Mare%20Orientale Mare Orientale] (the central mare of the [/Orientale%20Basin Orientale Basin]). The circular dark-floored 41-km crater [/Kopff Kopff] lies between Lacus Veris and the central mare.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Orbital Apollo photographs of Lacus Veris (in Earthshine) are online in Apollo 17's Nikon Magazine 158-WW.- DannyCaes DannyCaes Feb 20, 2014
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 91A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- The IAU name means "Lake of Spring", a modernized form of Mare Veris ("Spring Sea") one of a set of "four seasons" names given by [/Franz Franz] in his Die Randlandschaften des Mondes (1913) to previously unnamed dark patches in this area. The others were [/Mare%20Aestatis Mare Aestatis] (Summer), [/Mare%20Autumni Mare Autumni] (Fall), and [/Mare%20Hiemis Mare Hiemis] (Winter). The relevant section of Franz' map is reproduced as Figure 7 in [/Baum%20and%20Whitaker%2C%202007 Baum and Whitaker, 2007] (p. 132).
- In 1961 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XIB IAU Transactions XIB]) the IAU approved certain changes in the boundary of the feature meant by this name, as introduced in [/PLA%20Table%20III Table III] of the [/Photographic%20Lunar%20Atlas Photographic Lunar Atlas] (1960). These were said to be necessary to restore it to the feature intended by Franz.
- In 1970 the IAU changed the name from "Mare" to "Lacus" ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XIVB IAU Transactions XIVB], [/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971]).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- [/Baum%20and%20Whitaker%2C%202007 Baum and Whitaker, 2007]
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