Dale

Dale

Lat: 9.6°S, Long: 82.9°E, Diam: 22 km, Depth: 2.25 km, Rükl: 49

Left: LO-IV-009M. Middle: Clementine (top) & Lunar Orbiter Mosaic (bottom) images -- both from Map-A-Planet. Right: Color-coded topography LAC 81 image from USGS Digital Atlas. This is an area that is poorly represented in any of the Lunar Orbiter images that are readily available on-line. The IAU-named features visible in this rectified version of a photo taken with the medium resolution camera are: Kiess, Widmannstätten, Kreiken, Dale, Elmer and two lettered satellites of Kästner.

Images

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AS12-54-7988 shows Dale and its small companion near the frame's upper right corner. This orbital Hasselblad photograph was made during the mission of Apollo 12 in november 1969.
Research: Danny Caes

Maps

(LAC zone 81C1) LTO map USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Dale lies just south of the Smythii Basin -- a 740 kilometre-wide basin of the pre-Nectarian period (~ 4.6 to 3.92 bn years). The rim of the crater looks relatively worn all around, however, while its northern sector shows signs of an old impact event on the outer, northern edge of the crater, the southern sector has a similarly-sized impact event where a crater about a third of the diamater of Dale itself has formed on top of the rim. The floor of Dale show little signs of change and, overall, the crater doesn't have any significancant detail of note. - JohnMoore2

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Dale

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
 

• Westfall, 2000: 2.25 km

Nomenclature

Sir Henry Hallett; British physiologist; Nobel laureate (1875-1968).
 

• This name appears on LTO-81C1. It does not appear to replace any previous IAU-approved designation. Although it appears in the cumulative list of approved names printed in IAU Transactions XVB, when and how it came to be approved is not entirely clear from the IAU record. - JimMosher

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