Shorty (moon crater)
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| position | 20.22 ° N , 30.63 ° O | |
| diameter | 110 m | |
| depth | 14 m | |
| Named after | The crater was named by the astronauts to honor the genre of the short story, particularly that of Richard Brautigan and JD Salinger | |
| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Shorty is a crater on Earth's moon, it is a likely volcanic crater in the Taurus - Littrow valley. The two astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited him in 1972 as part of the Apollo 17 mission. It is the location of the famous orange floor .
Panoramic camera image of the Apollo 17
Exploring Shorty Crater during the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. The orange ground was to the right of the rover, at the foot of the small hill on the crater rim.
View of the Shorty Crater.
Orange floor right next to Shorty, which is made of titanium-rich pyroclastic glass
See also
literature
- Antonín Rükl : Lunar Atlas . Werner Dausien, Hanau 1990, ISBN 3-7684-2047-7 .
- Elijah E. Cocks, Josiah C. Cocks: Who's who on the moon. A biographical dictionary of lunar nomenclature. Updated and revised edition, 2nd edition. Tudor Publishers, Greensboro NC 2009, ISBN 978-0-9778026-1-6 .
Web links
Commons : Shorty Krater - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Apollo Image Gallery
- Tsiolkovskiy in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shorty , International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (English)
- ↑ LROC - Just Another Crater? (English)