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, 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.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
(LAC zone 63B2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
LTO map
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 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 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 - Hansen has been unofficially named Lacus Risus Felis by Charles Wood (Sky and Telescope, June 2000, p. 118; and Wood, 2003 -- see LPOD link, below).
LPOD Articles
Marginal Maria Beyond the Cat's Smile (Lacus Risus Felis and Mare Marginis)
Lunar 100
L100: Possible magnetic field deposits (swirl)
Bibliography
Wood, C.A. 11/2005. Mysteries of the Eastern Limb. S&T 110(5):62-63
