Helberg

Helberg

Lat: 22.5°N, Long: 102.2°W, Diam: 62 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

Left: Clementine view from Map-A-Planet (the unnoticeable crater Helberg at centre, distinct Robertson at left, and one of Ohm's rays running over both of them).
Middle: Lunar Orbiter view from Map-A-Planet.
Right: Color-coded topography LAC 54 from USGS Digital Atlas.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
The eastern sunlit inner slopes of Helberg (at the local evening terminator) were captured on Lunar Orbiter V photographs 5013-h2, 5014-h2, 5015-h2, 5016-h2, 5017-h2, 5018-h2, 5019-h2, and 5020-h2.
Research Danny Caes

Maps

(LAC zone 54D2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Helberg

Additional Information

The east-northeastern one of the two distinct rays from nearby crater Ohm runs over Helberg and Robertson immediately west-southwest of it (see Clementine photograph above). - DannyCaes Aug 15, 2015
 
 

Nomenclature

Robert J.; American aeronautical engineer (1906-1967).
 Rimae Helberg (a certain amateur selenologist's unofficial name for the rilles on the floor of Helberg).
 
 

LPOD Articles

Lettered Craters

Excerpt from the //USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon.

Bibliography

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