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  • ...e-moon.us/wiki/IAU+nomenclature#Planetary%20Gazetteer preliminary version] of the [[IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer|IAU Planetary Gazetteer]] available in th ...he title pages of true copies printed in 1986 say '''''Annual''' Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature'' on the title page. This copy does not include the
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  • ...close-up of '''Abulfeda''''s southern half and the adjacent northern part of [[Catena%20Abulfeda|Catena Abulfeda]]. ...E''''s shadowed eastern inner slopes, one should explore the maximum zoom of this craterlet!
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  • ...eployed scientific payloads - has left a series of impact-related features of historic significance on the lunar surface. <span class="membersnap">- John ...ical parts of them.<br /> Credit for both images: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. <span class="membersnap">- JohnMoore2</span><br /> <br />
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  • ...e Bench Formation''' was originally used to denote the diamond-shaped zone of relatively smooth light-gray material situated roughly midway between them ...canic flows that formed after the Imbrium impact, but before the formation of the mare. <span class="membersnap">- JimMosher</span><br /> <br />
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  • ...ratively gentle inclination. It is everywhere traversed by winding valleys of a very intricate type, all trending towards the south-east, and includes so ...from south of the [[Apennine%20Bench%20Formation|Apennine Bench]] to north of [[Mons%20Wolff|Mons Wolff]] was produced by using [[LTVT|LTVT]] on an amate
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  • ...from their brief stays there. All nine missions also returned photographs of lunar features; although, due to a near-disastrous mechanical failure, Apol ...sometimes listed as the final frame of one sequence and the initial frame of the next -- with separate printouts giving totally different information fo
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  • Let's assume that you want a get a real good close-up view of a lunar feature, say, the crater [[Thebit|Thebit]], whose latitude and long ...an style="color: red">'''Figure 1'''</span> below. Here you will see a lot of boxes that look like they all need to be filled in, however, all you need c
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  • ...1532.pdf here]. If you use this catalog make sure you understand that most of the numbers given are based on empirical relationships rather than measured
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  • ...: Executive Director, Center for Educational Technologies, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV 26003 * 2001-2003: Director of Education, Columbia University - Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ, 85623
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  • ...kes telescopes. The smallest features resolved are said to be in the range of about 1 km on the Moon.<br /> <br /> * The story of the 61-inch telescope is told in a number of [[LPL|LPL]] publications.
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  • ...he applied his experience primarily to the analysis of Viking photographs of Mars.<br /> <br /> ...ves obtained from Mount Wilson and Lick Observatories. Volume 1 was a list of 1,400 crater diameters measured by J. Young; Volume 2 gave precise position
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  • ...'[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2585 LO-IV-125H]'' None of the other features in this view are officially named.<br /> <br /> ...of the right margin. Note also the reflected light on the shadowed slopes of '''Bullialdus''''s central peak system!
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  • ...hotograph, please zoom in at maximum on '''Dollond E''' itself! The amount of detail on the shadowed slopes is remarkable!<br /> - Research orbital Apol ...)'' DOLLOND.--A bright crater, about 6 miles in diameter, on the N.W. side of [[Descartes|Descartes]]. Between it and the latter there is a rill-valley.<
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  • ...ky Moon, A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration'' (1993, University of Arizona Press), as well as many other science publications and planetary geologic m ...<br /> Elaborated and codified the lunar stratigraphic scheme and methods of stratigraphy-based lunar and planetary geologic mapping first conceived by
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  • ...raphs of that part of '''Dorsa Rubey''' should be online in the LPI's list of [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Flamsteed ...D UPDATED EDITION of the ''Clementine Atlas of the Moon'', 2012, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.<span class="membersnap">- DannyCaes <small>Jan 10, 2013</small></spa
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  • ...'Mons Bucher''''') is also noticeable "at about 2 o'clock" from the centre of Apollo 15's ''Fairchild''-metric mapping frame [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/res ...br /> - The rectilinear-looking oblong hill at the south-southeastern end of '''Dorsum Bucher''' is unofficially called '''''Mons Bucher''''' by Danny C
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  • ...rmerly Director of the Lunar Section of the [[BAA|BAA]] and 1982 recipient of its Walter Goodacre Medal. He was best known for his popular 1999 [[Whitake .../26450 Apollo Program Veterans Revisit Moon Landing] -- Whitaker is second of three interviewees<br /> <br />
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  • ...ages of parts of the Moon's hidden hemisphere on October 7, 1959. A system of lettered designations for lesser features was developed by 1982, but not IA ...ght ray patterns observable on the nearside to locate the possible centers of several unnamed others too distant to be observed. For the most part, Wilki
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  • ...rface in which both GRAIL spacecrafts impacted upon will be named in honor of Sally Ride (official name to be announced) – the first American woman, an ...e.html Maria T. Zuber] of the [http://web.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology], Cambridge, Mass.,.
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  • =Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994= ...ted by horizontal lines with the small Roman numerals at the top or bottom of each section indicating the page numbers.''<br /> <br />
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  • ...tions applied to the Moon today. Note, while these may not be the full set of words and terms referencing the geological Moon, some additional, non-geolo ...the rock may have formed through processes associated to the accumulation of plagioclase which makes up the lunar crust, however, its age is too young f
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  • ...d by his equally careful attribution of the [[Barringer|Meteor Crater]] in Arizona to a volcanic steam explosion. ...al engineering or father of electricity. Gilbert drew a pre-telescopic map of the Moon.
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  • ...anic origin'' (see Charles Wood's and Maurice Collins's ''21 Century Atlas of the Moon'').<br /> [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Radar%20bright Radar bright] - ...n Committee (see Don E. Wilhelms: ''TO A ROCKY MOON; a Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration'').<br /> [http://the-moon.us/wiki/TGLN TGLN] - Task Grou
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  • ...s/apollo/frame/?AS15-93-12725 AS15-93-12725]) shows both the chain (centre of photo) and concentric crater '''Gruithuisen K''' in the upper right corner. ...'Gruithuisen K''') is a very interesting target for today's webcam-imagers of the moon's surface. <span class="membersnap">- DannyCaes <small>Feb 24, 200
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  • =High-Albedo inner slopes of young bowl shaped and cone shaped craters on the moon's near side= ...''And the possible visibility of dim reflected light at the shadowed parts of those slopes'''<br /> <div id="toc">
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  • ...unced crater '''Horrocks''' on its floor.<br /> Note also the curved "row of four" just above '''Hipparchus''' (craters '''Halley''', '''Hind''', '''Hip ....lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/pan/mission/?16 Apollo Image Atlas] of the ''<u>Lunar and Planetary Institute</u>''.<br /> <br /> <br />
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  • =History of the LAC maps= ...ic telescopic observations. This page describes the genesis and production of the original [[LAC|Lunar Astronautical Chart]] (LAC) map series made there.
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  • ..." class="wiki" style="display: block">'''[[IAU%20Transactions|TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU]] : VOLUME XIB'''<br /> ''(the following is excerpted from the book =PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY (BERKELEY, 1961)=
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  • ..." class="wiki" style="display: block">'''[[IAU%20Transactions|TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU]] : VOLUME XIIA'''<br /> ''(the following is excerpted from the boo <br /> Edited by<br /> Jean-Claude PECKEIR<br /> General Secretary of the Union<br /> <br /> ''(from p. 183)''<br /> <br />
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  • ..." class="wiki" style="display: block">'''[[IAU%20Transactions|TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU]] : VOLUME XIIB'''<br /> ( ''the following is excerpted from the b =PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY (HAMBURG, 1964)=
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  • ..." class="wiki" style="display: block">'''[[IAU%20Transactions|TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU]] : VOLUME XVA (REPORTS)'''<br /> ''(the following is excerpted fro <br /> Edited by<br /> CORNELIS DE JAGER<br /> General Secretary of the Union<br /> <br /> ''from pp. 203-206''<br /> <br />
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  • ...and sometime odd people who have been obsessed by it. There is a long list of ancient and modern lunar observers and scientists with interesting personal ...s] of Samos (~580-500 BCE) - asserted he could write on the moon. His plan of operation was to write on a looking-glass in blood, and place it opposite t
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  • =Joy - and the "Pit of Joy" immediately east of it= ...the west and southwest of '''Joy''' are blemishes in the photographic film of Lunar Orbiter IV.<br /> <br />
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  • ...rbital ''Hasselblads'' of '''Kant''' and environs, made during the mission of Apollo 12: ...que photographs '''Kant''' is the pronounced crater just above the centres of the frames.
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  • =Kopal and Carder: ''Mapping of the moon. Past and present'' (1974)= ...es four detailed technical chapters on how the three dimensional positions of lunar features are determined.<br /> <br />
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  • ...' The streak across the middle of the frame is a defect in the development of the [[Lunar%20Orbiter|Lunar Orbiter]] film.<br /> <br /> ...n's surface!<br /> - Research Apollo 16 orbital photography and detection of error at the LPI's so-called "stereo-pair": Danny Caes<br /> <br />
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  • ...ation affiliated with the University of Arizona in Tuscon. [http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/history/early-days.php Founded] by planetary scientist [[Gerard%20Kuipe * Scanned copies of ''[http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/journal/ Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory]''
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  • ...word "Comments". Perhaps if comments are more visible, there will be more of them! You will not see the Edit tab unless you register for the wiki. ''Ple
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  • ...he megadome could be at its vent, but the other steep hills aren't sources of similar rough flows so the connection is unclear. This marvelous image is a ...o find it on the Kaguya video page - I wish they would provide a few words of areas depicted on each video!<br /> <br /> I tried to stress in a previous
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  • ...s. [http://inet.uni2.dk/~d120588/henrik/jim_ltvt.html LTVT] also does part of this but suffers (in my opinion) from the same handicap as VMA. I hope it w ...ages in locations from which they could be easily retrieved once a picture of interest had been located.<br /> <br /> But perhaps the "Imagery" tab in t
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  • ...d study selected areas of t e Moon at high resolution. It carries an array of instruments, and was originally conceived to support a now abandoned [[Cons ...tation – a kind of ‘slewing’ effect (second below), whereby, imagery of the lunar surface results in an [http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO
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  • ...ames).<br /> - '''Lalande''' was also captured near the rightmost margins of Apollo 16's orbital panoramic ''ITEK''-camera frames [http://www.lpi.usra.e ...ons])'' LALANDE.--A very deep ring-plain, about 14 miles in diameter, N.W. of [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Ptolemaeus Ptolemaeus], with bright terraced walls
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  • ...http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-225 Dave Storey. The Isle of Man Observatory]; south up''<br /> <br /> ...''Fairchild'' camera.<br /> - The Arizona State University's zoomify-scan of ''Fairchild'' frame [http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?image_id=AS16-M-29
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  • ...t any [[IAU|IAU]] approval – to name basins after craters on either side of the basin; hence the basin near [[Schiller|Schiller]] became the [[Schiller ...still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between.''
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  • ...begin to learn about education options. Chuck and I have suggested a list of schools that we know to offer lunar (and often planetary) course work as we ...Technology]], Cambridge, MA<br /> [[University%20of%20Tennessee|University of Tennessee]], Knoxville, TN<br /> <br />
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  • =Lunar Image of the Week= ...tml 69-05/19/2009-area southwest of Fra Mauro/ Bonpland] (the eastern part of Mare Cognitum).<br /> [http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/LIW/20090526.html 70-05/2
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  • ...as possible accessible from one place. There is some overlap with the list of major maps and atlases on the [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Bibliography Bibliog ...ve links to pages on which the maps can be viewed. Scans of a small number of maps are hosted on the present site in the [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Map%20C
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  • =List of Lunar [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Mare Maria]= ...Moura''' (Mare Crisium).<br /> '''Mare de Popoli''' (the southwestern part of Mare Nubium and Palus Epidemiarum) (on Van Langren's map mentioned as '''Ma
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  • ...ielding a wealth of data that has significantly advanced our understanding of the moon. There are many interesting aspects to these missions but at The-M ...e [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunartimeline.html timeline] of links to mission information at results links at the US National Space Scie
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  • ...er and Hughes]]''). Kosofsky and El-Baz also published a selection of some of the most striking images, explaining their geologic implications.<br /> <br ...- and 610-mm focal lengths operating at f/5.6, implying aperture diameters of 14 and 109 mm), and the only fundamental difference between them is that th
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