VENDELINUS
Directory - Section 60

BRIEF DESCRIPTION
This region of the eastern limb of the near-side of the Moon contains the large walled plain Humboltd, which is best seen shortly after Full Moon. Refer to your copy of the Antonin Rukl lunar atlas chart, page 147.



Full Moon Anaglyph

EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:
Image - Humboldt (Genovese)

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar Orbiter Database
Balmer, 112 km
Behaim, 55 km
Gibbs, 77 km
Hecataeus, 127 km
Holden, 47 km
Humboldt, 207 km
Humboldt, Catena
Lame, 84 km
Legendre, 79 km
 http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-38H3.jpg

Phillips, 124 km
Schorr, 53 km
Vendelinus, 147 km

APOLLO IMAGES:
Humboldt
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS15/10075717.jpg

YOUTUBE FLYOVERS:
youtube.com/watch?v=A7wr1QI_GpY&list=PL56882C1D4A379FC7  (Humboldt)

RESEARCH UPDATES:
AS15-2510(M)- Oblique close-up of Humboldt with Apollo metric camera (SP-362,174)
AS15-93-12641(H) - Interior of Humboldt (SP-362,201)
AS16-0532(M) - Close-up, oblique Metric camera view of Langrenus (SP-362, 166)
AS15-0018(P) - Great shot of a crater with assymmetric ray patter (Gibbs) (SP-362)
AS17-3153(P) - Panaramic view of Humboldt from Apollo 17 (SP-362)
 
 

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