Mare Marginis
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Marginis Basin
(unofficial name; IAU feature name for central 420 km of mare: Mare Marginis)
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Lat: 13.3°N, Long: 86.1°E, Main ring diam: 580 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2038 Rükl 38] |
Left: LOIV-165-H3, Right: Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.
Table of Contents
[#Marginis Basin Marginis Basin]
[#Marginis Basin-Images Images]
[#Marginis Basin-Maps Maps]
[#Marginis Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]
[#Marginis Basin-Description Description]
[#Marginis Basin-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Marginis Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Marginis Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Marginis Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Marginis Basin-Lunar 100 Lunar 100]
[#Marginis Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 63B2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
LTO map
[/Lunar%20Basins Basin Classification]
(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
| Certainty of Existence |
USGS Age |
Wilhelms Age Group |
Ring Diameters |
Mare Thickness |
Mascon |
| Uncertain |
Pre-Nectarian |
2 |
580 |
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- A [/swirl swirl] of 50,000 km^2 is associated with the northern end of the mare (Hughes and others, 2006)
- Mare area of 64,900 km^2 according to measurements by Jim Whitford-Stark.
Nomenclature
The IAU feature name means "Sea of the Edge".
- Named by Franz: Whitaker: [/Mapping%20and%20Naming%20the%20Moon Mapping and Naming the Moon], p 225.
- The impact basin is named after the mare.
- A set of dark mare-like regions west of Mare Marginis and east of [/Alhazen Alhazen] - [/Hansen Hansen] has been unofficially named Lacus Risus Felis by Charles Wood (Sky and Telescope, June 2000, p. 118; and [/Wood%2C%202003 Wood, 2003] -- see LPOD link, below).
LPOD Articles
Marginal Maria Beyond the Cat's Smile (Lacus Risus Felis and Mare Marginis)
Lunar 100
[/Lunar%20100 L100]: Possible magnetic field deposits ([/swirl swirl])
Bibliography
Wood, C.A. 11/2005. Mysteries of the Eastern Limb. S&T 110(5):62-63
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