Lunic sinus
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| Sinus Lunicus as imaged by the Clementine spacecraft . Archimedes lunar crater at the bottom left . At the bottom right the point of impact of Lunik 2. | ||
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| position | 32.33 ° N , 2.08 ° W | |
| diameter | 119 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
Sinus Lunicus - Latin for Luna Bay - is a bay of the Mare Imbrium on the Earth's moon , the origin of which corresponds to the larger Maria . The name was given by the International Astronomical Union in 1970 for the first landing site of a space probe on the moon, in 1959 by Lunik 2 .
The dark gray basalt surface of the solidified lava lake has an average diameter of 120 kilometers. The bay is located on the southeast edge of the Mare Imbrium. It is bordered to the southwest by the Archimedes crater , to the northeast by the Aristillus crater , to the east by the Autolycus crater and to the northwest by the Montes Spitzbergen .
Web links
- Sinus Lunicus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Sinus Lunicus on The-Moon Wiki