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The Golden Handle is visible from 15:45 to 21:10 UT, 7th October, 2011. The moon with craters Bianchi, Bouger, Helicon and Helicon A, le Vervier and Sinus Iridium.
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Vallis Alpes (formerly known as the Alpine Valley), a sinuous rille about 166 km long and 8 km wide, is visible on the 12th April, 2012.The feature is visible as a narrow cut through the Montes Alpes mountain range east of crater Plato. It is vi...
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The Werner X is a famous optical phenomena on the Moon, which appears like an chiaroscuro 'X' shape, when the lunar sunrise falls on the rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Purbach, and Blanchinus. The Werner X (Also called Lunar X and the Purbach Cross) is visible each month for approximat...
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Rupes Recta
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Rupes Recta is a linear fault, or rille, on the Moon, in the southeastern part of the Mare Nubium at 22.1°S 7.8°W. The name is Latin for "Straight Fault", although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall. This is the most well-known escarpment on the Moon, and is a popular target for ama...
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The Lunar S can be observed just before a First Quarter Moon - when it is about 47% of Full. The feature can be found at the edge of Sinus Asperitatis (below Mare Tranquillitatis), and is formed by the shadows and sunlit highlights around the cr...
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Lunar Impact Bombardment
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Title: Chronology and Sources of Lunar Impact Bombardment Authors: Matija Cuk The Moon has suffered intense impact bombardment ending at 3.9 Gyr ago, and this bombardment probably affected all of the inner Solar System. Basin magnetisation signatures and lunar crater size-distributions indi...
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Lunar Core
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NASA Scientists Find Dynamo at Lunar Core May Have Formed Magnetic Field The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 billion years ago. Magnetiz...
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Ina crater
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How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age A young-looking volcanic caldera on the Moon has been interpreted by some as evidence of relatively recent lunar volcanic activity, but new research suggests it's not so young after all. While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photo...
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Montes Jura
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Montes Jura is a mountain range in the northwest part of the Moon (of the side that we see). The selenographic coordinates of this range are 47.1° N 34.0° W, and it has a diameter of 422 km. They were named after the Jura Mountains in western Switzerland. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montes_J...
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Lunar exosphere
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ScienceCasts: Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with this mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution.
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Mare Orientale
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Mare Orientale ("eastern sea" in Latin) is a Lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the Moon's nearside and farside and is thus difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective. Mare Orientale is difficult to observe from Earth, as it lies at the extreme western edge of the ne...
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Lunar A
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A 2016/10/14 21:28 pic.twitter.com/txaz8xexQZ(@KenichiKadota) October 14, 2016
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Lunar Craters
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Challenger Astronauts Memorialised on the Moon[url=http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/articles/challenger-astr...
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Moon 09.08.16
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2 panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount.
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Crater Petavius
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Crater Petavius taken with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter, IR-cut filter. 2X Barlow lens Petavius is a large lunar impact crater located to the southeast of the Mare Fecunditatis, near the southeastern lun...
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