Mandel'shtam
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Mandel'shtam
| Lat: 5.4°N, Long: 162.4°E, Diam: 197 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
left: Apollo 16 AS16-M-0592; Mandel'shtam is the crater that is almost as large as the entire image. Mandel'shtam A is inside the main crater, and R is the large one with a central peak straddling the SW rim.
right: LROC
Images
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Orbital Apollo 10 photographs of Mandel'shtam, included in the not-indexed Hasselblad magazine 35-U
- AS10-35-5191 shows the bright ray-crater Mandel'shtam F under high sun.
- AS10-35-5192 shows Mandel'shtam A with one of Mandel'shtam F's bright rays running over its floor.
Mandel'shtam photographs in other Hasselblad magazines
- AS10-33-4858 and 4862 show Mandel'shtam Q.
- AS10-33-4857 and 4860 show Mandel'shtam R.
- AS10-33-4861 shows Mandel'shtam R (upper right corner) and Mandel'shtam A (lower left corner).
- Apollo 13's AS13-60-8649 shows Mandel'shtam at the curved horizon (near the frame's left margin, Papaleksi at centre of frame).
Research Apollo 10 and Apollo 13 photography: Danny Caes
Maps
(LAC zone 67C1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Exterior impact melt deposits on Mandel'shtam R are most extensive to NNE, max of ~22 km beyond rim, with max wall slumping on SW side of crater, and topographically lowest rim crest to N (Hawke and Head, 1977).
- 17-km diameter Mandel'shtam F, just north of Mandel'shtam G is a ray crater, probably an oblique impact; see Clementine images.
- According to Wikipedia, Lunar Orbiter 1 impacted at the northwestern part of Mandel'shtam (6°35' North/ 160°72' East).
Nomenclature
- Named for Leonid Isaakovich Mandel'shtam (May 4, 1879 - November 27, 1944), a Soviet physicist. The main emphasis of his work was broadly considered theory of oscillations, which included optics and quantum mechanics. He was a co-discoverer of inelastic scattering of light used in Raman spectroscopy. The actual discovery (together with Grigory Landsberg) was done in parallel or even earlier than that of Raman (and K. S. Krishnan) and in Russian literature it is called "combination light scattering" (from combination of frequencies).
- Mandel'shtam was among the long list of IAU-approved farside lunar feature names published in Menzel, 1971.
- Mandel'shtam was one of nine names whose positions were shifted subsequent to the October, 1970 printing of provisional ACIC maps illustrating the new IAU farside nomenclature but before publication of the final list (Menzel, 1971). - JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 1), Figures 103 and 104.
- Mandel'shtam Q: AOTM, Chapter 7: Unusual Features (Part 2), Figure 237.
