Dryden

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Dryden

Lat: 33.0°S, Long: 155.2°W, Diam: 51 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), Upper Imbrian

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Left: Clementine image from Map-A-Planet.
Middle: Lunar Orbiter image from Map-A-Planet.
Right: Color-coded topography LAC 121 image from USGS Digital Atlas.

Table of Contents

[#Dryden Dryden]
[#Dryden-Images Images]
[#Dryden-Maps Maps]
[#Dryden-Description Description]
[#Dryden-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Dryden-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Dryden-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Dryden-LROC Articles LROC Articles]
[#Dryden-Bibliography Bibliography]

Note the Concentric Crater northeast of Dryden! (visible in the Clementine and Lunar Orbiter images).

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 121A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Pronounced crater at the northwestern part of the farside basin Apollo.

Description: Wikipedia

Dryden

Additional Information

Concentric Crater (CC) northeast of Dryden (which is N°50 in Charles Wood's catalog of lunar Concentric Craters) (listed as "Apollo").

Nomenclature

Hugh Latimer; American physicist, engineer, NASA leader (1898-1965).


LROC Articles

NAC ANAGLYPH: Dryden Central Peak (Kristen Paris).

Bibliography




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