Dante

Dante

Lat: 25.5°N, Long: 180.0°E, Diam: 54 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

left: LROC . right: Color-coded topography LAC 50 image from USGS Digital Atlas.

Table of Contents

[#Dante Dante]

[#Dante-Images Images]

[#Dante-Maps Maps]

[#Dante-Description Description]

[#Dante-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Dante-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Dante-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Dante-LROC Links LROC Links]

[#Dante-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Dante-Bibliography Bibliography]

Images

LPOD Photo GalleryLunar Orbiter ImagesApollo Images

• LROC view of Dante with Dante G to its east.
• Clementine

Maps

(LAC zone 50A3)USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Dante

Additional Information

Nomenclature

• Named for Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), an Italian poet.
• This farside name was introduced in Menzel, 1971 where it is noted that Dante's writings include "a journey through the eight concentric spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Fixed Stars."
• Is Menzel's name Dante in some way related to Riccioli's discontinued name Dantes? (see page 212 in Ewen A. Whitaker's Mapping and Naming the Moon).- DannyCaes DannyCaes Jul 1, 2013

LROC Links

• Featured Image -- Dante Crater Constellation Region of Interest

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

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