Mare Tranquillitatis
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| position | 8.35 ° N , 30.83 ° O | |
| diameter | 876 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
Moon map with the Mare Tranquillitatis and the landing sites of Apollo 11 , Apollo 17 , Apollo 16 and Surveyor 5 . In the southeast is the Mare Fecunditatis , in the northeast the Mare Crisium , in the northwest the Mare Serenitatis and in the south the Mare Nectaris .
The Mare Tranquillitatis ( Latin for sea of calm ) is a lunar sea on the earth's moon .
It is located on the selenographic coordinates 8 ° N 31 ° E and has a mean diameter of 875 km.
In 1965, the Ranger 8 space probe hit this spot after taking 7137 photographs of the moon. Four years later, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission landed in the mare , with it the first humans set foot on the moon. The landing site of the first manned moon landing (0.8 ° N, 23.5 ° E) with the part of the lunar module that was left behind was named " Tranquility Base ".
The Mare Tranquillitatis, photographed from Apollo 8
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