Mare Crisium
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| position | 16.18 ° N , 59.1 ° E | |
| diameter | 556 km | |
| Named after | Sea of Crises. | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
The Mare Crisium (lat. "Sea of Crises", in German also often called "Sea of Dangers") is a mare of the Earth's moon in the Crisium Basin, northeast of the Mare Tranquillitatis .
It is located far to the east of the full moon disk at the selenographic coordinates 17 ° 00 ′ N, 59 ° 06 ′ E. Its mean diameter is 418 km.
Lunar probes
There are three artificial objects in the Mare Crisium . The Soviet probe Luna 15 , which was supposed to bring lunar rocks to earth before the Apollo 11 astronauts, probably crashed into a mountain when approaching on July 21, 1969 - during the Americans' first walk on the moon - and was lost. Luna 23 was able to land successfully on November 6, 1974, but the rock drill was damaged. A return to earth was therefore waived. Luna 24 , the last probe of the Luna program, landed on August 18, 1976 just 2.3 km from Luna 23 and brought 170 g of lunar rock to earth. Parts of the probe remained on the lunar surface when it returned to Earth.
Literary setting
- KAFF also Mare Crisium is the name of a novel by Arno Schmidt from 1960,some of which is set there.
- The Mare Crisium is the location of Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel from 1948, which was a template for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Clarke's novel of the same name , which was written at the same time.
- Luna City, the main setting in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Revolte auf Luna from 1966, is in the Mare Crisium.
See also
Web links
- SkyTrip.de: Mare Crisium (German)
- Lunar.arc.nasa.gov: Mare Crisium (English)
- The-moon.wikispaces.com: Mare Crisium (English)
- Video of the Kaguya spacecraft (Japanese)
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/luna_23/indepth ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/461
