Marco Polo (moon crater)
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| Marco Polo and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 15.52 ° N , 2.04 ° W | |
| diameter | 30 km | |
| depth | 360 m | |
| Card sheet | 59 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Marco Polo (approx. 1254–1324) | |
| Named since | 1961 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Marco Polo is an impact crater on the front of the moon in the mountains of the Montes Apenninus east of the Eratosthenes crater . The crater is very badly eroded, the wall has almost completely disappeared except for the eastern half and the remains are hardly to be seen in the mountainous surroundings.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 14.88 ° N , 1.98 ° W | 7 km | [1] |
| B. | 17.17 ° N , 1.89 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| C. | 14.02 ° N , 5.02 ° W | 7 km | [3] |
| D. | 14.92 ° N , 3.79 ° W | 6 km | [4] |
| F. | 15.73 ° N , 4.54 ° W | 4 km | [5] |
| G | 16.71 ° N , 1.95 ° W | 5 km | [6] |
| H | 17.81 ° N , 1.7 ° W | 6 km | [7] |
| J | 17.88 ° N , 1.27 ° W | 4 km | [8th] |
| K | 18.13 ° N , 1.5 ° W | 9 km | [9] |
| L. | 14.81 ° N , 5 ° W | 18 km | [10] |
| M. | 17.46 ° N , 1.11 ° W | 38 km | [11] |
| P | 16.9 ° N , 0.27 ° W | 26 km | [12] |
| S. | 17.74 ° N , 0.03 ° O | 22 km | [13] |
| T | 13.61 ° N , 1.04 ° W | 3 km | [14] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1961 after the Italian traveler Marco Polo .
Web links
- Marco Polo in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Marco Polo on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .