Zond 8 Orbital Lunar Photography

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An alphabetic list of all the named Far Side surface formations photographed by ZOND 8

List compiled by Danny Caes

ZOND 8's orbital lunar photographs are online in Don P. Mitchell's page SOVIET MOON IMAGES

Aitken
Amici
Apollo (the northern part of it, with craters Scobee and Smith, and a concentric craterlet at 31° South/ 154° West)
Barringer
Belopol'skiy
Bergstrand
Bok (with pronounced central peak)
Brouwer
Chalonge
Chebyshev
Das
De Vries (with pronounced central peak)
Doppler
Egnitis or Eginitis (see: Murakami/ Mariotte Y)
Ellerman
Galois
Gerasimovich (and its swirl-field)
Golitsyn
Heaviside
Ibn Hayyan (LTO name)(the IAU's Zwicky N on the floor of Zwicky)
Ioffe
Kleymenov
Lacus Oblivionis (the small dark region near Sniadecki)
Langmuir
Lodygin
Mare Orientale (the western part of it, which is always hidden behind the western limb)
Mare Pacificus or Orientale Dark Mantle Ring Deposit (unofficial names for the curious ring-shaped formation south of Mare Orientale)
Mariotte
McKellar
Mohorovicic
Montes Cordillera (the outer ring of the impact basin Mare Orientale)
Murakami (once Mariotte Y, also known as Egnitis or Eginitis)
Nassau
Orlov
Paschen
Plummer
Racah
Scobee (near Smith)
Shuleykin
Smith (near Scobee)
Sniadecki (near Lacus Oblivionis)
Sternfeld (Lodygin G)
Stratton
Stromgren
Vertregt
Von der Pahlen
Walker
Wilsing
Zwicky (with the LTO's Ibn Hayyan in it)(Zwicky N)

Zond 6

Vavilov (Fratres Vavilovi)