Magelhaens
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Magelhaens
| Lat: 11.9°S, Long: 44.1°E, Diam: 40 km, Depth: 1.7 km, Rükl: 48 |
LO-IV-065H_LTVT Magelhaens is in the upper left. The 32-km diam crater in the lower right is Magelhaens A.
Images
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- Apollo 8's oblique southward looking Hasselblad frame AS8-13-2225, which is one of the most well-known and most frequently reproduced orbital Apollo photographs of the moon's cratered surface, shows both Magelhaens and Goclenius.
This extraordinary photograph was included on pages 620-621 of the article A MOST FANTASTIC VOYAGE by Lt. Gen. Sam C. Phillips (The Story of Apollo 8's Rendez-Vous with the Moon, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, May 1969).
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
(LAC zone 79C1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) MAGELHAENS.--The more northerly and the larger of a pair of ring-plains between Colombo and Goclenius, with a bright and somewhat irregular though continuous border. The dark interior includes a small central mountain. Its companion on the S.E., Magelhaens a, slightly overlaps it. This also has a central hill, and a crater on the outer slope of its W. wall.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 1.7 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 1.96 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 1.95 km
Nomenclature
Fernao De (Ferdinand Magellan); Portuguese explorer (1480-1521).
- This name was introduced by Mädler (Whitaker, p. 219).
- Magelhaens Alpha (hill southwest of Magelhaens).
- Magelhaens Beta (hill east of Magelhaens). For Magelhaens Alpha and Beta, see page 83 of Tony Dethier's Maanmonografieen.
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