CHAMÄLEON + ONJALA OBSERVATORY  LUNAR ATLAS - II
Mare - Craters - Rilles - Faults - Mountains
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3.3d
12%
4.5d
17%
5.1d
22%
5.5d
25%
6.1d
30%
7.1d
39%
7.5d
44%
8.5d
54%
9.6d
65%
10.5d
75%
11.5d
84%
12.1d
87%
12.5d
92%
13.1d
95%
14.5d
100%

Moon age 7.1 days – Illumination 39 % - 21.08.2015

Image number and crater list
Mosaics
Interesting image details
Special Images
 
 
Image Number Craters - in alphabetical order Special details

download pdf-file with descriptions of exceptional or unique lunar structures at this moon age
LUNAR 100
   
01 Abulfeda crater chain Catena Abulfeda, in the upper left a "funny" double crater
02 Aristoteles and Eudoxus -
03 Atlas, Hercules and Lacus Mortes FF-crater Atlas and Rima + Rupes Bürg
04 Boussingault and Demonax -
05 Bürg and Lacus Mortes Rupes and Rima Bürg
06 Cäsar Rima Ariadeus
07 Delambre -
08 Descartes landing site of Apollo 16
09 Fracastorius and Beaumont Rima Fracastorius
10 Littrow-Taurus mountains landing site of Apollo 17, pyroclastic deposit
11 Maurolycos highlands
12 Menelaus and Manilius Rimae Menelaus and Rimae Sulpicius Gallus
13 Mons Penck -  
14 Piccolomini -  
15 Plinius lava border, Menelaus Dome and Rimae Plinius  
16 Plinius lava border, Menelaus Dome and Rimae Plinius  
17 Posidonius FF-crater Posidonius  
18 Posidonius Rima G. Bond and Rima Römer  
19 Proclus small structures on the crater floor of Proclus  
20 Rima Römer -  
21 Rosse, Mare Nectaris secondary crater in the Tycho ray north of Rosse  
22 Rupes Altai part of the wall of Nectarian basin  
23 Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina craterlets on the floor of crater Theophilus  
24 Torrichelli unique crater form  
25 Valentine Dome and Rima Sung Mei Valentine Dome is an intrusive lunar dome with a size of 30 x 20 km  

 
Mosaics

Piccolomini to Torrichelli (Rupes Altai, Mons Penck, Capella and Isorus)

 
Interesting image details

Image 016 - shows the basalt border between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis as well as the young crater Plinius, which is significantely younger than the mare basalts.
Image 025 - shows the large intrusive plateau Valentine Dome.

Detailed descriptions of other exceptional or unique structures at this moon age you can find in this pdf-file
 
« Special Images

The image to the left shows the Floor Fractured crater Atlas and Hercules in 4 phases.

Moon age from left to right: 5.1, 5.5, 6.1 and 7.1 days.

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