Lunar Features Tables
Near Side Water Features
|
Latin Name |
English Name |
Hints |
|
Lacus Somniorum |
Lake of Dreams |
Left eyebrow |
|
Mare Crisium |
Sea of Crises |
Round |
|
Mare Fecunditatis |
Sea of Fertility |
East |
|
Mare Frigoris |
Sea of Cold |
North |
|
Mare Humorum |
Sea of Moisture |
South |
|
Mare Imbrium |
Sea of Rains |
Left eye |
|
Mare Nectaris |
Sea of Nectar |
Oldest |
|
Mare Nubium |
Sea of Clouds |
South |
|
Mare Serenitatis |
Sea of Serenity |
Right eye |
|
Mare Spumons |
Foaming Sea |
East |
|
Mare Tranquilitatis |
Sea of Tranquility |
Apollo 11 |
|
Mare Vaporum |
Sea of Vapors |
Nose? |
|
Oceanus Procellarum |
Ocean of Storms |
Biggest |
|
Palus Somni |
Marsh of Sleep |
Tranquilized |
|
Sinus Aestuum |
Seething Bay |
Nostrils? |
|
Sinus Iridum |
Bay of Rainbows |
Near Rain |
|
Sinus Medii |
Central Bay |
Center |
|
Sinus Roris |
Bay of Dew |
Left eyebrow |
Near Side Craters
|
Crater Name |
Hints |
|
Albategnius |
Central |
|
Alphonsus |
Central |
|
Aristarchus |
West ` |
|
Archimedes |
In Rains |
|
Aristoteles |
Eyebrow |
|
Atlas |
With Hercules |
|
Clavius |
South Pole |
|
Cleomedes |
Crisises |
|
Copernicus |
White rays |
|
Endymion |
Dark NE |
|
Eratosthenes |
Copernicus |
|
Eudoxus |
North |
|
Fracastorius |
SE |
|
Gassendi |
Moisture |
|
Grimaldi |
Black West |
|
Hercules |
Cold Hero |
|
Kepler |
White rays |
|
Langrenus |
East |
|
Macrobius |
Ocean |
|
Manilius |
On Nose? |
|
Maurolycus |
Edge of rays |
|
Petavius |
Tip of Rabbit�s Ear |
|
Pitatus |
Under clouds |
|
Plato |
North |
|
Plinius |
Teardrop |
|
Posidonius |
Dreamland |
|
Ptolemaeus |
Central |
|
Schickard |
SW |
|
Theophilus |
Rabbit Ear |
|
Tycho |
Brightest rays |
|
Walther |
In the rays |
Near Side Mountains
|
Mountain Range |
Hints |
|
Alpes |
Above the Rains |
|
Apenninus/Apennines |
Apollo 15 |
|
Carpatus/Carpathian |
Copernicus |
|
Caucasus |
Between eyes |
|
Haemus |
Under Serenity |
|
Jura |
Over the Rainbow |
|
Pyrenaeus/Pyrenees |
Sea of Nectar |
|
Taurus |
Apollo 17 |
Far Side Water Features
|
Latin Name |
English Name |
Hints |
|
Mare Australe |
Southern Sea |
Terminator |
|
Mare Ingenii |
Sea of Ingenuity, or
Cleverness |
South Central |
|
Mare Marginis |
Sea of the Edge or Border |
Terminator |
|
Mare Moscoviense |
Moscow Sea |
Northern Dark Spot |
|
Mare Orientale |
Eastern Sea |
Ringed |
Far Side Craters and Mountains
|
Crater Name |
Hints |
|
Aitken |
South Pole (to) Aitken |
|
Apollo |
South, under Korolev |
|
Birkhoff |
North |
|
Campbell |
North |
|
Compton |
North |
|
Curie |
South |
|
D�Alembert |
North |
|
Fabry |
North |
|
Fleming |
Equator |
|
Gargarin |
South |
|
Giordano Bruno |
Bright Rays |
|
Hertzprung |
Equator |
|
Hilbert |
North |
|
Joliot |
East Terminator |
|
Jules Verne |
South |
|
Jackson |
Bright Rays |
|
Korolev |
Equator |
|
Landau |
North |
|
Leibnitz |
South Central |
|
Lorentz |
West Terminator |
|
Mach |
Equator |
|
Mendeleev |
Equator |
|
Milne |
South |
|
Oppenheimer |
South |
|
Pasteur |
Equator |
|
Plaskett |
North Pole |
|
Poincare |
South |
|
Schroedinger |
South Pole |
|
Schwarzchild |
North Pole |
|
South Pole Aitken |
The Big Bruise |
|
Tsiolkovskiy |
Dark Spot |
|
Von Karmen |
South Central |
Far Side Mountains
|
Mountain Range |
Hints |
|
Cordillera |
Outer Ring |
|
Rook |
Inner Ring |
Table Last Updated: 8-25-03. Data from Lunar and Planetary Institute, LEM-1A, Lunar Earthside Hemisphere, USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic, 3rd edition, July 1987.
More Information
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moonpage.html - government-checked moon facts.
www.amlunsoc.org/ - Observe the Moon with American Lunar Society members.
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/contents.html - NASA Apollo history book.
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/toc.html - Apollo history by experts.
aa.usno.navy.mil/data/ - What was the moon phase when you were born? Moon phases past and future.
