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BRIEF DESCRIPTION LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar
Orbiter Database
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?stadius%7C0
(Stadius)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Eratosthenes%7C0
*Eratosthenes)
APOLLO IMAGES:
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Eratosthenes&sort=
(Eratosthenes)
LRO Images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photos_of_the_Moon_by_Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter
lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/292-Terraces-in-Eratosthenes-Crater.html
LAC/LAC-58 (LRO's Wide Angle Camera view of
Stadius region)
LUNAR FLYOVERS:
youtube.com/watch?v=KaqzefTnqRM
(Kaguya)
RESEARCH UPDATES:
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101007-terraces.html
(Terraces in Eratosthenes)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101020-lunar-timescale.html
(Eratosthenes & Time Scale)
lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/2010/10/interior-of-landmark-crater.html
(Interior of complex Eratosthenes)
ANOMALIES:
LAC-044. (Source: EA,034) Gruithuisen's "Lunar City". The German
physician and astronomer Baron Franz von Paula Gruithuisen
(1774-1852) shocked the astronomical world in 1824 when he
announced the discovery "of many distinct traces of lunar
inhabitants, especially one of their colossal buildings." The area
in question is a series of parallel 'mounds' just to the north of
Schroter crater..." This caused a great deal of excitement at the
time, though many astronomers were understandably cautious. "Much
later...the astronomer T.W. Webb described the fabled 'lunar city'
from his own observations as: '...a curious specimen of
parallelism, but so coarse as to carry upon the face of it its
natural origin, and it can hardly be called a difficult object.'"
Gaudibert's original 1874 article is edited below: "Doubtless
drawings of this object exist, and it would be interesting to
compare them with its present state. It seems almost certain that
Gruithuisen found changes here in the disappearance of the east
'ribs', with the exception of the north-west 'rib', which seems to
have been covered by a meridional wall. At the extremity of the
next 'rib', instead of a wall I see a depression, and beyond a
prolongation of the 'rib'. The third and fourth 'ribs' have no
prolongation, but the south one has just a depression, and then
what seems to be a continuation of the 'meridional' wall; so that
we have the two extremities of this wall without the middle. It
would be interesting also to know whether the east side is now in
the same state as it was after Gruithuisen lost the 'ribs', and
also if the three craterlets north of this object have been
observed. They seem of recent date. Observing this object with a
power of 550, I saw its surface covered with minute hillocks, with
a larger mound at the latitude of the second 'rib'. The terminator
was passing through Stadius when I made my observation."