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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Море Холода http://www.variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1700397/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Matt Smith
Explanation:
Lighter than typically
dark, smooth, mare the
Mare Frigoris
lies in the far lunar north.
Also known as the Sea of Cold,
it
stretches across
the familiar lunar nearside in
this close up of the waxing gibbous Moon's north polar region.
Dark-floored, 95 kilometer wide crater Plato is just left of the center.
Sunlit peaks
of the lunar Alps (Montes Alpes) are highlighted
below and right of Plato, between the more southern
Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) and Mare Frigoris.
The prominent straight feature cutting through the mountains
is the
lunar
Alpine Valley
(Vallis Alpes).
Joining the Mare Imbrium and Mare Frigoris,
the lunar valley is about 160 kilometers long and up to 10
kilometers wide.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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