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Petavius is a large lunar impact crater located to the southeast of the Mare Fecunditatis, near the southeastern lunar limb. Attached to the northwest rim is the smaller crater Wrottesley . To the southeast are Palitzsch , Vallis Palitzsch, and Hase .
The crater area (on the bottom) in a Selenochromatic format Image (Si) The most distinctive aspect of this crater is the asymmetry of the inner wall, with the side being nearly twice as wide at the southern end as it is to the north.
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The floor of Clavius forms a convex plain that is marked by some interesting crater impacts. The most notable of these is a curving chain of craters that begins with Rutherfurd in the south then arcs across the floor in a counterclockwise direction forming a sequence of ever diminishing diameters.