Mare Insularum
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| Mare Insularum. To the right and left of the center of the picture are the bright ray craters Kopernikus and Kepler. | ||
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| position | 7.79 ° N , 30.64 ° W | |
| diameter | 512 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
The Mare Insularum - Latin for archipelago - is a marginal sea of the Oceanus Procellarum on the moon . The name is still rarely used because it was not named until 1976 by the International Astronomical Union .
The mare has a mean diameter of 513 km and is located on the western half of the front of the moon at the selenographic coordinates 7.5 ° north and 30.5 ° west. It is located south of the Mare Imbrium in the area of the conspicuous radiation craters Copernicus and Kepler . In the west it merges into the extensive Oceanus Procellarum, the northern border is formed by the Montes Carpatus . In the east lies the Sinus Aestuum , in the south the Mare Cognitum .
Web links
Commons : Mare Insularum - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Lunar.arc.nasa.gov: Mare Insularum (English)
- The-moon.wikispaces.com: Mare Insularum (English)