#mare orientale

Mare Orientale, Moon

Some lunar features are named: Montes Cordillera, Montes Rook, Kopff Crater, Lacus Autumni (”Lake of Autumn”), Lacus Veris (”Lake of Spring”), Hohmann Crater, Eichstadt Crater, Byrgius Crater, and Grimaldi Crater

I think I might have already posted this but I am tired, so enjoy it again. Cheers. : )

Two articles published in the journal "Science" provide new information about the birth of Mare Orientale, a big impact basin on the Moon. Researchers used data collected by NASA's GRAIL mission to reconstruct the formation of Mare Orientale, helping to better understand how impact craters with concentric circular structures form.

Due articoli pubblicati sulla rivista "Science" offrono nuove informazioni sulla nascita del Mare Orientale, un grande bacino da impatto sulla Luna. Ricercatori hanno utilizzato dati raccolti dalla missione GRAIL della NASA per ricostruire la formazione del Mare Orientale, contribuendo a capire meglio come si formino i crateri da impatto con strutture circolari concentriche.

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Which moon is this? Earth's. Our Moon's unfamiliar appearance is due partly to an unfamiliar viewing angle as captured by a little-known spacecraft -- the Soviet Union's Zond 8 that circled the Moon in October of 1970. Pictured above, the dark-centered circular feature that stands out near the top of the image is Mare Orientale, a massive impact basin formed by an ancient collision with an asteroid. Mare Orientale is surrounded by light colored and highly textured highlands. Across the image bottom lies the dark and expansive Oceanus Procellarum, the largest of the dark (but dry) maria that dominate the side of the Moon that always faces toward the Earth. Originally designed to carry humans, robotic Zond 8 came within 1000 km of the lunar surface, took about 100 detailed photographs on film, and returned them safely to Earth within a week.

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