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.
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)
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Interior of Humboldt (SP-362,201)
AS16-0532(M)
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Close-up, oblique Metric camera view of Langrenus (SP-362, 166)
AS15-0018(P)
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Great shot of a crater with assymmetric ray patter (Gibbs)
(SP-362)
AS17-3153(P)
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Panaramic view of Humboldt from Apollo 17 (SP-362)