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Lunar Orbiter 5 view, facing west. Van de Graaff is a crater formation located on the far side of the Moon, on the northeast edge of Mare Ingenii. The crater is named for physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff, whose groundbreaking work includes the invention of the Van de Graaff generator. [1] Van de Graaff is one of the largest craters of ...
The primary function of the Queqiao relay satellite that is deployed in a halo orbit around the Earth–Moon L 2 point is to provide continuous relay communications between Earth and the lander on the far side of the Moon. [34] [50] The Queqiao launched on 21 May 2018. It used a lunar swing-by transfer orbit to reach the Moon.
Oblique Lunar Orbiter 2 view, facing south. Garavito is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the Moon's far side. It lies to the north-northwest of the huge walled plain Poincaré, and to the west of the crater Chrétien. It takes its name in honor of the Colombian astronomer and engineer Julio Garavito Armero.
Tsiolkovskiy is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. Named for Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, [3] it lies in the southern hemisphere, to the west of the large crater Gagarin, and northwest of Milne. Just to the south is Waterman, with Neujmin to the south-southwest.
Oblique Apollo 14 image Oblique view of Guyot (center foreground) and Kostinskiy (right of center), from Apollo 16. Guyot is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side.It is separated from the crater Kostinskiy to the northeast by only a few kilometers of rough terrain.
Lunar Orbiter 2 image Closeup of the interior from Apollo 11. Daedalus is a prominent crater located near the center of the far side of the Moon.The inner wall is terraced, and there is a cluster of central peaks on the relatively flat floor.
Oblique Lunar Orbiter 5 image, facing west. Leibnitz is a huge lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This formation is the same size as Clavius on the near side. It is located to the east-southeast of Mare Ingenii, and is joined to the northeast rim of Von Kármán.
Stratton is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side. It is located to the north of the large craters Keeler and Heaviside, and less than one crater diameter to the south of Dewar. As with many craters on the Moon, this feature has become worn and eroded due to a multitude of subsequent impacts of various sizes.