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The Mongolian Lunar New Year, commonly known as Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian: Цагаан сар ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷᠠ, pronounced [t͡sʰɐˈʁaːɴ sɐr] or literally White Moon), [note 1] is the first day of the year according to the Mongolian lunisolar calendar. The festival of the Lunar New Year is celebrated by Mongolic and some Turkic ...
The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
Oblique view from Lunar Orbiter 5 Close up of Schrödinger G, the low-albedo area within Schrödinger, which is interpreted as a volcanic vent, similar to those in Alphonsus on the near side. Schrödinger is a large lunar impact crater of the form traditionally called a walled plain and is named after Erwin Schrödinger .
Albategnius is an ancient lunar impact crater located in the central highlands. It is named after the Mesopotamian Muslim astronomer and scientist Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī , Latinized as Albategnius .
Endymion is a lunar impact crater that lies near the northeast limb of the Moon. It is located to the east of Mare Frigoris and north of Lacus Temporis. To the southwest is the somewhat smaller crater Atlas. Because of its location, Endymion has an oval appearance from foreshortening. Beyond the crater along the lunar limb is the Mare ...
A lunar year charts 12 complete cycles of the moon and lasts approximately 354 days, as opposed to our western solar year, which lasts 365 days in accordance with the earth’s passage around the sun.
Ina is located on top of a rounded upland (dome) 300 m high and 15 km in diameter. [15] [16] It is situated on an elongated plateau about 30 km wide.[1] [15] [17] This plateau stands in the middle of Lacus Felicitatis ‒ a small lunar lake between Mare Serenitatis, Mare Vaporum and Mare Imbrium.
Cabeus is a lunar impact crater that is located about 100 km (62 mi) from the south pole of the Moon. [3] At this location the crater is seen obliquely from Earth, and it is almost perpetually in deep shadow due to lack of sunlight. Hence, not much detail can be seen of this crater, even from orbit.