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BRIEF DESCRIPTION CRATERS IN THIS SECTION:
Abetti, 7 km
Al-bakri, 12 km
Auwers, 20 km
Bessel, 16 km
Borel, 5 km
Brackett, 9 km
Dawes, 18 km
Deseilligny, 6.6 km
Finsch, 4 km
Plinius, 43 km
Sarabhai, 7.6 km
Tacquet, 6.9 km
Very, 5.1 km
LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar
Orbiter Database
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Bessel|0
(Bessel)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Dawes|0
(Dawes)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Plinius|0
(Plinius)
LRO Images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photos_of_the_Moon_by_Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter
See reports and images below. *
YOU TUBE VIDEOS:
See below.
LUNAR FLYOVERS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aGuQNv0Fg
(KAGUYA taking "Mare Serenitatis (Ariadaeus)" by HDTV
Research Updates:
LeMonnier
(Lunascan)
Dorsa Smirnov & Posidonius (Lunascan)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20110419-bessel.html
(LRO, Lava Flows Exposed in Bessel CrateR) *
lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/Moon_Features_Lithograph.pdf
(Lunar features seen by LRO) *
lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/493-Dawes.html
(Dawes by LRO) *
lpi.usra.edu/meetings/leag2011/pdf/2011.pdf
(Report)
astrosurf.com/lunascan/reports/024_glrgroup.eu_old_tlp_4.pdf
(GLR, An Anomaly in Mare Serenitatis)
reports/abdrakhimov_basilevsky_2010_lpsc_2173.pdf
AS15-9309(P)
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Sinuosus rille in eastern Mare Serenitatis (SP-362, 183)
AS15-9328(P)
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Awesome close-up of Bessel in Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS17-2334(P)
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Crater in S. Mare Serenitatis is juncture between basalt units
(SP-362,227)
AS15-9874(P)
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Vertical view of Dawes (SP-362)
AS17-2321(P)
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Crater chain in Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS15-9337(P)
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Incomplete ray pattern of crater in Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS17-2335(P)
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Oblique view of a 4-km crater in central Serenitatis
(SP-362,228)
AS15-9301(P)
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Topography-affected crater near Apollo 17 site (SP-362)
AS17-2317(P)
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Volcanic cones on SE margin of M. Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS15-9361(P)
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Fig. 82 - Intersecting ridges near W. edge of Mare Serenitatais
(SP-362)
AS15-9361(P)
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Fig. 226 - Rimless depressions in mare Serenitatis (SP-362,214)
AS15-9361(P)
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Fig. 227 - Close-up of Aratus D in W. Mare Serenitatis
(SP-362,215)
AS17-0939(M)
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Fig. 74 - Oblique View of Apollo 17 Site (SP-362)
AS17-2313(P)
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Fig. 75 - Close-up of rille in Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS17-2313(P)
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Fig. 76 - Close-up of ridge near Apollo 17 site (SP-362)
AS17-2313(P)
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Fig. 77 - Close-up of another ridge in Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS17-2313(P)
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Fig. 220 - Freshest & youngest fractures are in
Littrow area (SP-362,208)
AS17-2313(P)
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Fig. 221 - Detailed view of mare surface near E. Mare
Serenitatis (SP-362,209)
AS15-9298(P)
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Fig. 78 - Close-up of scarp in M. Serenitatis near Apollo
17 site (SP-362)
AS17-2313(P)
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Fig. 79 - Blow-up of lunar ridge near Apollo 17 site (SP-362)
AS17-2314(P)
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Fig. 80 - Stereo view of mare ridge and Apollo 17 site (SP-362)
AS17-2309(P)
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Fig. 81 - Close-up of ridge from AS17-2314(P) (SP-362)
AS17-150-23069(H)
Plinius
Rilles in Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS17-0808(M)
and
others in mosaic of Mare Serenitatis (SP-362)
AS15-9299(P)
Lunokhod
near Le Monnier (SP-362)
AS15-9328(P)
Bessel
(SP-362)
AS17-0940(M)
View
of Mare Serenitatis and Apollo 17 site (SP-362)