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Posidonius is a lunar impact crater that is located on the north-eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum. It was named after ancient Greek philosopher and geographer Posidonius of Apamea. [1] The crater Chacornac is attached to the southeast rim, and to the north is Daniell. Oblique view of Posidonius from Apollo 17 ...
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.
The company was awarded a $77 million Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract in May 2019 to land science payloads on the Moon for NASA. The robotic Nova C lander will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. [5] [6] By April 2021, however, the landing site had been changed to a location between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Crisium ...
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.
The outer wall is breached in multiple locations, but the outline of the crater rim can still be observed. The wall forms a distinctive hexagonal shape upon the rugged lunar surface, with a slight curvature at the vertices. Satellite craters of Janssen. The crater is named after French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen. [1]
Lunar Orbiter 5 image from 1967, cropped to show the vicinity of the landing site of Apollo 11, used in mission planning. The image is centered precisely on a small crater called West crater (190 m in diameter), and the lunar module Eagle touched down about 550 m west of West Crater. The area shown is approximately 25 km × 25 km across.
The bottom of a small unnamed crater within Antoniadi crater was measured by the laser altimeter (LALT) instrument on board the Japanese Selenological and Engineering Explorer satellite to be the lowest point on the moon, [1] at Lunar latitude 70.43° S, longitude 187.42° E. [3] The point is 9.178 km below the average lunar geoid.
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).