Ibn Firnas
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Ibn Firnas
| Lat: 6.8°N, Long: 122.3°E, Diam: 89 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
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left: LROC . Unmistakable [/King King] crater and lava pool at lower left of Ibn Firnas
right: LO-I 136 M Ibn Firnas is in the center of this Lunar Orbiter view. The smaller crater to its lower left (with the central peaks) is [/King King]. The larger crater above Ibn Firnas is [/Ostwald Ostwald] with the small, but deeply shadowed, [/Recht Recht] on its east rim. There are a number of IAU named [/minor%20feature minor features] between Ibn Firnas and [/Ostwald Ostwald] (see [/Melissa Melissa]), as well as on the floor of [/King King] (see [/Mons%20Dieter Mons Dieter]). Another IAU-named feature in the present view is [/Zanstra Zanstra] at the bottom of the chain of similarly-sized circular craters on the right ([/Zanstra Zanstra] is the one with the prominent little crater straddling its northwest rim).
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The LPI's search-program for orbital Apollo photographs has no match for crater Ibn Firnas, which is rather strange because Ibn Firnas was frequently photographed during the mission of Apollo 16.
- A16's orbital Fairchild Mapping/Metric frame AS16-M-0753 (oblique northward looking REV 27) shows the large crater Ibn Firnas a little below and to the left of the frame's centre.
- On Fairchild frame AS16-M-1317 (oblique northward looking REV 37) it (Ibn Firnas) is partially obscured by the frame's left margin. At the time of REV 37, the command module of A16 was orbiting a bit more northward than during REV 27.
- Ibn Firnas was also captured on A16's panoramic ITEK-camera magazine REV 47 (Forward Facing Camera); frames AS16-P-4988, 4990, 4992, 4994, 4996.
- Research orbital Apollo 16 photography: Danny Caes
Ibn Firnas E (the crater with central peak east-northeast of Ibn Firnas itself which is the northern one of the "chain" depicted and described in the LO-I 136 M photograph at top of this page):
- This crater was captured on Apollo 10's orbital Hasselblad frames AS10-30-4343, 4344, 4345, and 4346 (note: the bright crater in the distance, near the left margin of each frame, is crater Recht).
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 65C1) LTO map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
Spanish-Arab humanitarian, technologist (unkn-c. A.D. 887).
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