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- 1 Table of Contents
- 2 [/Introduction#toc0 THE-MOON WIKI]
- 2.1 [/Introduction Introduction]
- 2.2 [/Introduction#toc1 Motivation]
- 2.3 [/Introduction#toc2 Contributors & Contributions]
- 2.4 [/Introduction#toc3 Lunar People]
- 2.5 [/Introduction#toc4 Quality]
- 2.6 [/How%20to%20Help How to Help]
- 2.7 [/Explanations Explanations]
- 2.8 Alphabetical Index to Named Features
- 2.9 [/Special%20Features%20Lists Special Features Lists]
- 2.10 [/Lunar%20100 Lunar 100]
- 2.11 [/Glossary Glossary]
- 2.12 [/Bibliography Bibliography]
- 2.13 [/LPOD Lunar Photo of the Day]
- 2.14 [/Lunar%20Maps Lunar Maps]
- 2.15 [/Lunar%20Missions Lunar Missions]
- 2.16 [/Lunar%20Places Lunar Places]
- 2.17 [/Nomenclature#toc0 Lunar Nomenclature]
- 2.18 [/A%20New%20Atlas%3F A New Atlas?]
- 2.19 [/Children%27sBooks Children's Books]
- 2.20 Lunar Scientists
- 2.21 [/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map Rükl Map Images]
Table of Contents
[/Introduction#toc0 THE-MOON WIKI]
[/Introduction Introduction]
[/Introduction#toc1 Motivation]
[/Introduction#toc2 Contributors & Contributions]
[/Introduction#toc3 Lunar People]
[/Introduction#toc4 Quality]
[/How%20to%20Help How to Help]
[/How%20to%20Help#toc0 Quick Guide to Contributing to The-Moon]
[/How%20to%20Help#toc1 How to Add info to Existing Pages]
[/How%20to%20Help#toc2 How to Add Pages]
[/How%20to%20Help#toc3 How to Add a Photo]
[/How%20to%20Help#toc4 Some Specific Things You Can Do to Help]
[/Explanations Explanations]
[/Explanations#toc1 Page Title]
[/Explanations#toc2 Lat:, Long:, Diameter: km, Depth: km, Rukl, USGS age]
[/Explanations#toc3 Main Image]
[/Explanations#toc4 Images]
[/Explanations#toc5 Maps]
[/Explanations#toc6 Description]
[/Explanations#toc7 Description: Elger]
[/Explanations#toc8 Description: Wikipedia]
[/Explanations#toc9 Additional Information]
[/Explanations#toc10 Nomenclature]
[/Explanations#toc11 LPOD Articles]
[/Explanations#toc12 Bibliography]
[/Explanations#toc13 Pronounciations]
Alphabetical Index to Named Features
[/A A]..[/B B]..[/C C]..[/D D]..[/E E]..[/F F]..[/G G]
[/H H]..[/I I]..[/J J]..[/K K]..[/L L]..[/M M]..[/N N]
[/O O]..[/P P]..[/Q Q]..[/R R]..[/S S]..[/T T]..[/U U]
[/V V]..[/W W]..[/X X]..[/Y Y]..[/Z Z]
[/Special%20Features%20Lists Special Features Lists]
[/Special%20Features%20Lists#toc1 Surface Features]
[/ALPO%20list%20of%20banded%20craters Banded craters]
[/Lunar%20Basins%20List Basins]
[/Lunar%20Catenae Catenae - crater chains]
[/Colored%20regions Colored regions]
[/Colored%20regions%20-%20Part%202 Colored regions - Part 2]
[/Colored%20Regions%20-%20Part%203 Colored regions - Part 3]
[/Concentric%20Crater Concentric Craters]
[/Cryptomaria Cryptomaria - hidden maria]
[/Dark%20halo%20craterlets Dark halo craterlets]
[/Domes Domes]
[/Lunar%20Dorsum Dorsa - mare ridges]
[/FFC%20List Floor Fractured Craters]
[/Lunar%20Lacus Lacus - lakes] (and other unnamed dark spots).
[/Lunar%20Mare Maria - seas]
[/Lunar%20Mons Mountains]
[/Oblique%20Impact%20Craters Oblique Impact Craters]
[/Lunar%20Palus Palus]
[/Partially%20Buried%20Craters Partially Buried Craters]
[/Lunar%20Promontorium Promontoria]
[/Pronounced%20Central%20Peaks Pronounced Central Peaks]
[/Ray%20craters Ray craters] (and bright -high albedo- spots).
[/Lunar%20Rilles Rilles]
[/Lunar%20Rupes Rupes - faults]
[/Lunar%20Sinus Sinus]
[/swirl Swirls]
[/Terrae Terrae] (discontinued)
[/Twin%20craters Twin craters]
[/Lunar%20Valleys Vallis - valleys]
[/Lunar%20Volcanoes Volcanoes]
[/Special%20Features%20Lists#toc2 Nomenclature Lists]
[/Nomenclature-Country Nomenclature-Country]
[/Nomenclature-Jesuits Nomenclature-Jesuits]
[/Nomenclature-Selenographers Nomenclature-Selenographers]
[/Unofficial%20Names Nomenclature-Unofficial/Informal/Discontinued]
· [/clair-obscur Optical Feature Names]
· [/Unofficial%20Names%20%28A%20to%20F%29 Unofficial Names (A to F)]
· [/Unofficial%20Names%20%28G%20to%20L%29 Unofficial Names (G to L)] (+ small interview).
· [/Unofficial%20Names%20%28M%20to%20R%29 Unofficial Names (M to R)] (+ list of people behind Unofficial /Informal /Discontinued Nomenclature).
· [/Unofficial%20Names%20%28S%20to%20Z%29 Unofficial Names (S to Z)] (+ miscellaneous Info).
· [/Names%20of%20G.B.Riccioli Names of G.B.Riccioli]
· [/Names%20of%20Felix%20Chemla%20Lam%C3%A8ch Names of Felix Chemla Lamèch]
· [/Unofficial%20Names%20of%20Hugh%20Percy%20Wilkins Unofficial Names of Hugh Percy Wilkins]
[/Nomenclature-Women Nomenclature-Women]
[/Special%20Features%20Lists#toc3 Other]
[/Apollo%208%20Orbital%20Lunar%20Photography Apollo 8 Orbital Lunar Photography] (a handy guide to the many orbital pans created by David Woods and Frank O'Brien of the Apollo 8 Flight Journal).
[/Anaglyph Anaglyphs of the lunar surface] (3D-Stereo images of the telescopically observed moon, Apollo orbital observations, and Apollo surface 3D-photography).
[/Guinness%20Book%20of%20Lunar%20Records Guinness Book of Lunar Records]
[/Lunar%20Orbiter%201%20-%20catalog%20of%20photographed%20features Lunar Orbiter 1 - catalog of photographed features]
[/Lunar%20Orbiter%202%20-%20catalog%20of%20photographed%20features Lunar Orbiter 2 - catalog of photographed features]
[/Lunar%20Orbiter%203%20-%20catalog%20of%20photographed%20features Lunar Orbiter 3 - catalog of photographed features]
(Lunar Orbiter 4 - catalog of photographed features, see: the Lunar and Planetary Institute's Search By Feature Name).
[/Lunar%20Orbiter%205%20-%20catalog%20of%20photographed%20features Lunar Orbiter 5 - catalog of photographed features]
[/Unknown%20lunar%20regions%20on%20orbital%20Apollo%20photography Unknown lunar regions on orbital Apollo photography]
[/Guide%20to%20NASA%20SP-362%20Apollo%20Over%20The%20Moon Guide to NASA SP-362 Apollo Over The Moon]
[/Images%20needed Images needed]
[/Administrator%20attention%20needed Administrator attention needed]
[/the-Moon%20Wiki%20--%20Planning%20Pages Planning Pages]
[/Lunar%20100 Lunar 100]
[/Lunar%20100#toc1 Description]
[/Lunar%20100#toc2 Lunar 100 List]
[/Lunar%20100#toc3 Additional Information]
[/Lunar%20100#toc4 LPOD Articles]
[/Lunar%20100#toc5 Lunar 100 Links]
[/Lunar%20100#toc6 Bibliography]
[/Glossary Glossary]
[/Glossary#toc1 Feature Nomenclature]
[/Albedo%20feature Albedo feature] - unusually dark or light
[/Boulder%20tracks Boulder tracks] - narrow grooves left by rolling or sliding rocks and boulders
[/Catena Catena] - a chain of craters
[/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition] - chemical makeup of crater central peaks
[/Concentric%20crater Concentric crater] - small crater with two rims, sort of..
[/Crater Crater] - circular depression
[/Cryptomaria Cryptomaria] - hidden maria
[/Dark-halo Dark-halo] - low-albedo deposits surrounding some craters
[/Dorsum Dorsum] - ridge
[/Floor%20Fractured%20Craters Floor Fractured Crater] -impact morphology modified by volcanic-related activity
[/Fossa Fossa] - long, narrow depression
[/Lacus Lacus] - "lake" (small plain)
[/Landing%20site%20name Landing site name] - at or near Apollo landing site
[/Lunar%20Basins Lunar Basin] - extremely large impact craters
[/Mare Mare] - "sea" (large circular plain)
[/Minor%20feature Minor feature] - extremely small named craters
[/Mons Mons] - mountain
[/Mons Montes] - mountain range
[/Oceanus Oceanus] - "ocean" (very large dark area)
[/Palus Palus] - "swamp" (small plain)
[/Planum Planum] - high plain
[/Planitia Planitia] - low plain
[/Promontorium Promontorium] - headland or promontory
[/Pyroclastic Pyroclastic] - type of rocks of volcanic origin
[/Radar%20bright Radar bright] - radar bright craters are young
[/Ray%20craters Ray craters] - craters with prominent 'rays' extending outward
[/Rima Rima] - fissure (Latin) or rille (German for groove)
[/Rupes Rupes] - fault
[/Satellite%20feature Satellite feature] - lettered crater
[/Sinus Sinus] - "bay" (small plain)
[/Swirl Swirl] - bright areas typically associated with strong magnetic anomalies
[/Moore%20et%20al%2C%201980 Thermal anomaly crater] - craters that have temperature anomalies during eclipses (described in [/Moore%20et%20al%2C%201980 Moore et al, 1980])
[/Tholus Tholus] - small, domical hill
[/Vallis Vallis] - valley
[/Lunar%20Volcanoes Volcano] - possible or actual
[/Glossary#toc2 Organizations]
[/ALPO ALPO] - Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers
[/BAA BAA] - British Astronomical Association
[/DMA DMA] - Defense Mapping Agency
[/GLR GLR] - Geological Lunar Researches Group
[/IAU IAU] - International Astronomical Union
[/JPL JPL] - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
[/JSC JSC] - Johnson Space Center
[/LPACC LPACC] - Lunar Photography and Cartography Committee
[/LPI LPI] - Lunar and Planetary Institute
[/LPL LPL] - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
[/NASA NASA] - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
[/TGLN TGLN] - Task Group for Lunar Nomenclature
[/USGS USGS] - United States Geological Survey
[/WGPSN WGPSN] - IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
[/Glossary#toc3 Acronyms and abbreviations]
[/AIC AIC] - 1:500,000 map series (1/4 of LAC zone, very limited coverage)
[/CMP CMP] - Command Module Pilot ([/Apollo%20program Apollo program])
[/CSM CSM] - Command Service Module ([/Apollo%20program Apollo program])
[/DEM DEM] - digital elevation model
[/IAU%20directions IAU directions] - north up, east to right
[/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] - official system for naming Lunar features
[/JPL%20Horizons JPL Horizons] - online solar system ephemeris
[/LAC LAC] - 1:1,000,000 map series (44 maps, partial coverage, nearside only)
[/LAC%20zone LAC zone] - notation defining lunar map area
[/LM LM] - Lunar Module ([/Apollo%20program Apollo program])
[/LM%20map%20series LM map series] - 1:1,000,000 map series (updates of LAC series; 11 maps only)
[/LMP LMP] - 1:5,000,000 map series (3 maps, full coverage)
[/LPOD%20Index LPOD] - Lunar Photo of the Day (website)
[/LRL LRL] - Lunar Receiving Laboratory
[/LTM LTM] - early nearside topographic map in east and west hemispheres
[/LTO LTO] - 1:250,000 map series (1/16th of LAC zone, partial coverage in [/Apollo%20program Apollo] zone)
[/LTVT LTVT] - Lunar Terminator Visualization Tool (computer program)
[/PI PI] - principal investigator
[/Map-a-Planet Map-a-Planet] - on-line service for interactively creating lunar maps
[/S-IVB S-IVB] - (or S-4B) - The stage of the Saturn-V rocket which boosted the CSM and LM out of Earth orbit, enroute to the moon ([/Apollo%20program Apollo program])
[/SIM SIM] - Scientific Instruments Module ([/Apollo%20program Apollo program])
[/Topophotomap Topophotomap] -- same as LTO but covers smaller area; various scales; limited coverage
[/ULCN ULCN] - Unified Lunar Control Network
[/VIP VIP] (VIP-site).
[/VMA VMA] - Virtual Moon Atlas (computer program)
[/Xi-Eta Xi-Eta] - position of nearside feature in X-Y coordinates
[/Glossary#toc4 Other terms]
[/Albedo Albedo] - the reflectance of a surface
[/Anaglyph Anaglyph] - stereoscopic image composed of two slightly shifted images, both in opposite colors
[/Apollo%208%20Orbital%20Lunar%20Photography Apollo 8] - first manned mission to orbit the moon (december 1968).
[/Clair-obscur Clair-obscur] - "features" produced by patterns of light and shadow; also called "Trompe l'oeil"
[/Colongitude Colongitude] - 90° minus longitude of [/subsolar%20point subsolar point]
[/Conjunction Conjunction] - Moon and Sun in same direction in sky
[/Earthshine Earthshine] - Earth-to-moon reflected sunlight, also called "Ashen Light"
[/Elongation Elongation] - apparent angle between Sun and Moon
[/Evening%20Terminator Evening Terminator] - line of sunset on the Moon
[/Librations Librations] - apparent rocking motions of the Moon as viewed from Earth
[/Limb Limb] - the Moon's edge
[/Lunar%20Orbiter Lunar Orbiter] - space mission
Lunar Pyroclastic Volcanism Project - USGS cataloging of volcanic ash deposits
[/Morning%20Terminator Morning Terminator] - line of sunrise on the Moon
[/Opposition Opposition] - Moon opposite Sun in sky
[/Opposition%20Surge Opposition Surge] - increase in brightness near zero phase angle
Pareidolia - images of living creatures (mostly faces) and other familiar objects seen in Earth's and the moon's surface formations (an optical illusion, often called "Trompe l'oeil")
[/Phase Phase] - illuminated fraction of Moon
[/Phase%20Angle Phase Angle] - angle between Sun and observer as seen from Moon
[/Phases Phases] - named points in the lunar cycle (New, First Quarter, Full, Last Quarter)
[/Resolution Resolution] - the size of the smallest detectable detail
[/Retro-Reflection%20phenomena Retro-Reflection phenomena] - lunar Heiligenschein
[/Selenographic%20Coordinates Selenographic Coordinates] - system of latitude and longitude on Moon
[/Stratigraphy Stratigraphy] - system to rank relative age of rocks
[/Sub-Earth%20Point Sub-Earth Point] - location on surface where Earth is directly overhead
[/Subsolar%20Point Subsolar Point] - location on surface where Sun is directly overhead
[/Sun%20angle Sun angle] - angle of sun above local horizontal
[/Synodic%20month Synodic month] - interval from New Moon to New Moon
[/Terminator Terminator] - the line separating the sunlit and shadowed side of the Moon
[/Bibliography Bibliography]
[/Bibliography#toc1 Maps, atlases and related]
[/Bibliography#toc2 Scientific]
[/Bibliography#toc3 Guides]
[/Bibliography#toc4 Histories]
[/Bibliography#toc5 Popular/General Interest]
[/Bibliography#toc6 Articles]
[/LPOD Lunar Photo of the Day]
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[/LPOD%20Miscellany LPOD Miscellany]
[/Lunar%20Maps Lunar Maps]
[/Lunar%20Maps#toc1 Chronological List]
[/Lunar%20Maps#toc2 Trivia]
[/Lunar%20Maps#toc3 LPOD]
[/Lunar%20Maps#toc4 Bibliography]
[/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map Rükl-based Index to the-Moon Wiki]
- [/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map#toc1 Description]
- [/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map#toc2 Index Map]
- [/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map#toc3 Links to Sectional Maps]
- [/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map#toc4 Additional Information]
[/Lunar%20Missions Lunar Missions]
[/Lunar%20Missions#toc1 Completed Missions and Programs]
[/Lunar%20Missions#toc2 Active Missions]
[/Lunar%20Missions#toc3 Planned Missions]
[/Lunar%20Missions#toc4 Comparison of Lunar Orbiter Instrumentations]
[/Lunar%20Missions#toc5 References]
[/Lunar%20Places Lunar Places]
[/Lunar%20Places#toc1 Lunar Web Sites]
[/Lunar%20Places#toc2 Lunar Photograph Web Sites]
[/Lunar%20Places#toc3 Observatories]
[/Lunar%20Places#toc4 Research Centers]
[/Nomenclature#toc0 Lunar Nomenclature]
[/Nomenclature#toc1 IAU Planetary Gazetteer]
[/Nomenclature#toc2 IAU nomenclature]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc1 Description]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc2 Additional Information]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc3 Pre-History]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc4 The Beginnings]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc5 The Middle Phase]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc6 The Space-based Phase]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc7 The Planetary Gazetteer Phase]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc8 Recent Developments]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc9 IAU Name Change Chronology]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc10 Criticisms]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc11 Disclaimer]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc12 LPOD Articles]
- [/IAU%20nomenclature#toc13 Bibliography]
[/Nomenclature#toc3 IAU Names Chronology]
[/Nomenclature#toc4 Who's Who on the Moon]
[/Nomenclature#toc5 Major Maps and Books]
[/Nomenclature#toc6 Excerpts from Transactions of the IAU]
[/Nomenclature#toc7 A Nomenclature Zoo]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc1 Statistics]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc2 Oldest-Newest]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc3 Odd Characters]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc4 Largest -- Smallest]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc5 Longest-Shortest]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc6 Volcanoes]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc7 Non-scientists]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc8 Living People]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc9 Multiple Honorees]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc10 Sound-Alikes]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc11 Moved Names]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc12 Dropped Names]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc13 Shortest-lived Name]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc14 The 44 Writers, etc.]
- [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#toc15 First Names]
[/Nomenclature#toc8 Invalid NASA Names]
[/Nomenclature#toc9 Landing Sites]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc1 Description]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc2 Additional Information]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc3 List of Sites]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc4 Apollo 11 Site]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc5 Apollo 12 Site]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc6 Apollo 13]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc7 Apollo 14 Site]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc8 Apollo 15 Site]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc9 Apollo 16 Site]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc10 Apollo 17 Site]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc11 Luna 2]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc12 Luna 9]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc13 Luna 16]
- [/Landing%20Sites#toc14 Surveyor Missions]
[/Nomenclature#toc10 LPOD Articles]
[/Nomenclature#toc11 Bibliography]
[/A%20New%20Atlas%3F A New Atlas?]
[/Children%27sBooks Children's Books]
[/Children%27sBooks#toc1 Non-Fiction]
[/Children%27sBooks#toc2 Fiction]
[/Children%27sBooks#toc3 Picture Books]
[/Children%27sBooks#toc4 Additional Information]
Lunar Scientists
[/Warner%20Collection Warner Collection]
[/Intro%20%26%20Index Intro & Index]
[/Individual%20Scientists Individual Scientists]
[/Individual%20Scientists#toc0 Lunar Scientists]
[/Individual%20Scientists#toc1 Ancient]
[/Individual%20Scientists#toc2 17th-19th Centuries]
[/Individual%20Scientists#toc3 20th Century]
[/R%C3%BCkl%20Index%20Map Rükl Map Images]
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