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GAGARIN
Farside Directory - Ridge Section 128


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                                    Left.  Ridge Section 128; Right: Cropped 1200 dpi USGS color chart of Section 128     
                                      
Larger expanded version of color chart above
 USGS Charts 1020S-140160
Lunascan Project composite of Sections 128,129,139,& 140
LAC_84 (Original WAC pdf)
LAC_102 (Original WAC pdf)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION
20.2_S_149.2_E
Gararin is a large, 265 km, lunar impact crater located in the southern hemisphere on the lunar Far Side.  A fantastic graphic representation of Gagarin can be observed in the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA images).  To the southwest is the crater Pavlov (out of frame) and to the northeast lies Keeler. Closer to the rim are the craters Levi-Civita to the southwest, and Beijerinck to the north-northeast, all out-of-frame. Isaev lies entirely within the northwest rim of Gagarin. In contrast with the floor of Gagarin, Isaev has a floor with a somewhat low albedo. Isaev steals the interest in the region with most of the links devoted to it and is the largest of six craters falling within the perimeter of Gagarin that have been named after pioneers of Russian aviation and astronautics. Gagarin has been heavily eroded by a long history of crater impacts. The worn rim forms a low, circular ridge around the somewhat bowl-shaped interior. The inner floor is covered by a multitude of crater impacts of various dimensions. Little if anything remains of a central ridge, if the crater ever possessed such a feature. (Credit: Some of the information used in the section feature descriptions was obtained from Wikipedia.org. Section 128 and this directory was created by Fran Ridge and Ned Haskin of The Lunascan Project).

             USEFUL TOOLS:

Lunar Farside Chart [300 dpi] (NASA/LPI)
Farside Image Composite [1600 dpi] (NASA/LRO)
Farside-contour-map-gray2800.jpg
lunascan.com/lunascan/LAC_maps.htm (Bob Garfinkle) *
planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Moon1to1MAtlas

CRATERS:
Denning, 44 km
Gagarin, 265 km
Isaev, 90 km
Marconi, 73 km

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar & Planetary Institute:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ (Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/ (Photo Gallery)
lpi..usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?gagarin%7C0
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?isaev%7C0
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?denning%7C0
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?marconi%7C0 

APOLLO IMAGES:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ (Apollo Image Atlas)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=gagarin&sort=
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=denning&sort=
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=marconi&sort=

CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
Possible.

LUNAR RECONNAISANCE ORBITER IMAGES:
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/
pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/lro/lola.htm

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RESEARCH UPDATES:
the-moon.wikispaces.com/Gagarin