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Mare Serenitatis / s ɪ ˌ r ɛ n ɪ ˈ t eɪ t ɪ s / (Latin serēnitātis, the "Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Its diameter is 674 km (419 mi). Its diameter is 674 km (419 mi).
Giordano Bruno is a 22-kilometre (14 mi) lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the northeastern limb. It lies in an area that can be viewed during a favorable libration , although the area is viewed from the side and not much detail can be seen.
Warren Field is the location of a mesolithic calendar monument built about 8,000 BCE. [1] It includes 12 pits believed to correlate with phases of the Moon and used as a lunisolar calendar. [2] It is considered to be the oldest lunisolar calendar yet found. [3] [4] [5] It is near Crathes Castle, in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland, in the ...
Montes Apenninus is the most prominent remnant of the outer ring of the Imbrium basin, which also includes Montes Carpatus to its south and Montes Caucasus to its north.. The Montes Apenninus range forms the southeastern border of the large Mare Imbrium lunar mare and the northwestern border of the Terra Nivium highland region.
These are among the best locations for astronomical observations in the southern hemisphere. [21] An ESO project is the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), a 40-metre-class telescope based on a five-mirror design and the formerly planned Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. The ELT will be the largest visible and near-infrared telescope in the world.
Clavius Base, the site of a lunar administrative facility in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey; Time-travel facility located under Clavius in the 2015 Madeira Desouza novel entitled Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside [4] The location of the fictional Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino in the Arctic Monkeys song "Four Out of Five"
Lunar nearside with major maria and craters labeled. Lunar maria (singular mare) are large, dark, regions of the Moon.They do not contain any water, but are believed to have been formed from molten rock from the Moon's mantle coming out onto the surface of the Moon.
In Heinlein's 1966 book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Tycho is the location of the lunar habitat named "Tycho Under". Tycho was the location of the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (TMA-1), and subsequent excavation of an alien monolith, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the seminal 1968 science-fiction film by Stanley Kubrick and book by Arthur C. Clarke.