Mare Vaporum
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| Mare Vaporum in top view. In the upper center of the picture Lacus Felicitatis . | ||
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| position | 13.57 ° N , 3.69 ° E | |
| diameter | 242 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
The Mare Vaporum ( Latin for "sea of vapors") is a lunar sea on the earth's moon . It has the selenographic coordinates 14 ° N 4 ° E and a mean diameter of 240 km.
It is located southwest of the Mare Serenitatis and southeast of the Mare Imbrium . The sea is limited by the Montes Apenninus ridge .
South of the Mare Vaporum at the lunar crater Ukert , the visual effect Lunar V can be observed on the lunar terminator at a moon age of around 6.7 days, shortly before reaching the first quarter of the moon .
Web links
Commons : Mare Vaporum - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Lunar.arc.nasa.gov: Mare Vaporum (English)
- The-moon.wikispaces.com: Mare Vaporum (English)
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [1]