Sinus Aestuum

Lat: 12.19°N, Long: 6.62°W, Diam: 316.5 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2032 Rükl: 32]

Sinus Aestuum in the local morning (left) and local noon (right). LRO

Images

Apollo 12's Hasselblad photograph AS12-50-7434 shows an oblique northward view of Sinus Aestuum's eastern part (foreground) with bowl-shaped craters [/Bode Bode] C and H, and the [/Montes%20Apenninus Montes Apenninus] below centre of the image. Research Danny Caes
Apollo 17's Nikon photograph AS17-160-23946 shows a north-south oriented view of Sinus Aestuum (mentioned as Seething Bay) east of [/Eratosthenes Eratosthenes] (right margin). Part of [/Montes%20Apenninus Montes Apenninus] is seen at the image's lower half. Research Danny Caes

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 59A4) LAC map Geologic map

Sinus Aestuum was part of the original IAU nomenclature of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (1935).
Section of the Face of the Woman in the Moon.
Section of Ed Murray's C or Dark C.
The name Sinus Aestuum is Latin, according to the IAU, for "Seething Bay", or according to [/Whitaker Whitaker], "Bay of Seething Heat" (p. 87) or "Bay of Hot Days" (p. 216).
- In a review of their book in the February 1955 [/BAA JBAA] (page 121), Whitaker criticizes [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore] for translating the name as "Bay of Heat," saying the correct translation is "Bay of Billows."
According to Whitaker (pp. 216-217), this name was introduced by [/Riccioli Riccioli], although Riccioli used it for the feature now known as [/Sinus%20Medii Sinus Medii]. Blagg, in her [/Collated%20List Collated List] (#1270), found the present feature labeled with its modern name by all the authorities she consulted. Whitaker does not specify who moved it to its present location.
[/Langrenus Van Langren] had previously referred to this area (plus [/Mare%20Vaporum Mare Vaporum]) as Fretum Catholicum ([/Whitaker Whitaker], pp. 192 and 200).
Aestuum Pyroclastics, an unofficial name on chart 17 of the 21st Century Atlas of the Moon (C.A. Wood/ M. Collins). The location of the Aestuum Pyroclastics is north-northwest of Schroter, at the same location of F.v.P. Gruithuisen's so called "lunar city".

Wood, C.A. 8/2005. Pyroclastics on the Moon. S&T 110(2):62-63

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