Astronomica Langrenus


Le pianure lunari - The Lunar Plains

 

Mare  HUMORUM

  • Denominazione - Name......................................mare Humorum

  • Superficie - Surface...............................................  80.000 kmq

  • Dove si trova...................................settore sudovest della Luna

  • Where it's located.............................in the SW side of the Moon

 

  • A destra: Il mare Humorum sul disco lunare

  • On right: The Humorum sea on the lunar disk

 

Principali strutture - Main structures of Humorum sea:

  • Solchi - Rimae:
  • rima Hippalus.SE Humorum, 3 parallel rimae, 250 km lenght
  • rima Doppelmayer.............................NW Doppelmayer crater
  • rupes Liebig...................................................east Liebig crater
  • rima Mersenius......between Mersenius and Letronne craters
  • Crateri principali - Main craters:
  • Gassendi..........................................................85 km - 3000 mt
  • Clarkson...........................................................37 km
  • Mersenius.........................................................72 km - 2300 mt
  • Liebig................................................................39 km - 1500 mt
  • Palmieri.............................................................44 km - 1200 mt
  • Doppelmayer......................................................5 km - 1600 mt
  • Puiseux....................................................................buried crater
  • Lee.....................................................................45 km
  • Vitello.................................................................45 km - 1600 mt
  • Hippalus.............................................................61 km -   900 mt
  • Loewy.................................................................20 km -   500 mt
  • Agatharchides...................................................48 km - 1500 mt
  • Promontori - Headlands:
  • Cape Kelvin.................................................SE mare Humorum
  • Regioni marginali - Marginal regions:
  • palus Epidemiarum..............30.000 kmq - SE mare Humorum
  • Pianure confinanti - Neighbouring plains:
  • oceanus Procellarum..........................4.000.000 kmq - to north
  • mare Nubium...........................................220.000 kmq - to east

Images and articles about Mare Humorum

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Le rimae del Mare Humorum - Rimae around Humorum

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