Montes Sovietici
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Montes Sovietici
(discontinued [/IAU IAU] name; also known informally as the Soviet Mountains)
| Lat: 5°S-19°N, Long: 111-124°E, Length: 830 km, (farside) |
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Clementine UV-VIS Multispectral Mosaic: Mercator projection dynamically created by USGS lunar Web Map Service. Click here for a USGS-generated list of all currently [/IAU IAU]-named features with centers in this field. The series of crater rims giving the impression of a mountain chain at some sun angles runs roughly along the interlocking diagonal of bright rays extending from [/Giordano%20Bruno Giordano Bruno] in the upper right to [/Necho Necho] (below center). The intensely dark crater at the bottom is [/Tsiolkovskiy Tsiolkovskiy]. [/Mare%20Moscoviense Mare Moscoviense] is in the upper left and [/Mare%20Marginis Mare Marginis] (upper) and [/Mare%20Smythii Mare Smythii] (lower) on the left.
Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 65D2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Presumed mountain range on the moon's Far Side, east of crater [/Lobachevskiy Lobachevskiy]. A bright linear feature identified as Soviet Mountains on Luna 2 farside image. Not mountains at all, simply alignment of bright crater rays. - TychoCrater TychoCrater
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- Named for the Soviet Union.
- One of the first maps of the moon's Far Side, printed in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIB IAU Transactions XIB] (1961), shows the presumed mountain range Montes Sovietici near the meridian of 120° East, about 5 degrees east of crater [/Lobachevskiy Lobachevskiy]. The name was adopted in that year.
- The name was deleted in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIVB IAU Transactions XIVB] (1970) when it, and three other mountain chains were "found not to be clearly identifiable."
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
E.A. Whitaker: [/Mapping%20and%20Naming%20the%20Moon Mapping and Naming the Moon] (Cambridge, 1999).
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