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The pit is located at 8.3355°N, 33.222°E on the moon's surface. Radar imaging indicated that the pit's funnel is roughly 20 meters deep, while the inner pit has a depth of approximately 105 meters. The diameter of the pit's funnel was between 140 and 146 meters long while the diameter of the inner pit is 88–100 meters long.
Mare Tranquillitatis / t r æ ŋ ˌ k w ɪ l ɪ ˈ t eɪ t ɪ s / (Latin for Sea of Tranquillity or Sea of Tranquility) [a] is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. It contains Tranquility Base , the first location on another celestial body to be visited by humans.
The surface feature is Mare Tranquillitatis, or the Sea of Tranquility, where the Apollo 11 mission landed on the afternoon of July 20, 1969. ... are connected to pits covering the lunar surface.
The mission's target is the Tranquillitatis Pit, about 100 m (330 ft) in diameter and about 100 m in depth. It may be a potential access to a lava tube. [2] The mission's lander would feature a highly accurate landing system, [2] allowing the deployment of the rover a few hundred feet from the pit. [6]
Lamont is a system of low ridges in the surface of Mare Tranquillitatis that is most likely a submerged impact crater. It was named after Scottish-born German astronomer Johann von Lamont . [ 1 ] It is located to the southeast of the crater Arago .
It is named after the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility), the place on the Moon where the rock samples were found during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. It was the last mineral brought from the Moon which was thought to be unique, with no counterpart on Earth, until it was discovered in Australia in 2011. [10]
January's full moon may have you howling! Nicknamed the Wolf Moon, this month's lunation will reach peak fullness at 2:27 p.m. PT on Jan. 13, marking the first full moon of 2025 and rising two ...
A California woman was arrested Wednesday after 27 dead horses were found across her multiple properties, officials said. Jan Johnson, of Clements, was booked in the San Joaquin County Jail on ...