Sinus Asperitatis
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Sinus Asperitatis
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Lat: 3.8°S, Long: 27.4°E, Diam: 206 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2047 Rükl: 47] |
Table of Contents
[#Sinus Asperitatis Sinus Asperitatis]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Images Images]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Maps Maps]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Description Description]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Sinus Asperitatis-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine
The pronounced crater near the lower margin of this Clementine photograph is Theophilus.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images (the name Sinus Asperitatis is not mentioned in the search engine of the Apollo Image Atlas) (to compile an additional list of orbital Apollo photographs of this region north of Theophilus would be interesting).
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 78B2) LAC map Geologic map LM map AIC map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- A somewhat fork- or branch-shaped [/rima rille] at 6°20' South/ 24°30' East (between [/Theophilus Theophilus] and [/Hypatia Hypatia], in Sinus Asperitatis), is described and depicted in NASA SP-362, APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 3), Figure 136. Detection of this rille's exact location: Danny Caes.
Nomenclature
- The [/IAU IAU] name is Latin for "Bay of Roughness".
- This name was not part of the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature]. It is one of the 120 names on [/LTO LTO] charts approved by the [/IAU IAU] in 1976
- Perhaps interesting to add something in here about a certain terrestrial cloud formation called Asperitas, and also about one of the early observers and photographers of this cloud formation: Margaret Anne LeMone
LPOD Articles
Ring Around a Basin Another kind of melt
Almost Microgeology (George Tarsoudis's pre-sunset photograph of the Hypatia-Torricelli-Theophilus region)
Bibliography
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