From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Mare Vaporum

Field	Value
name	Mare Vaporum
image	Mare Vaporum - Clementine.jpg
caption	Mare Vaporum. The crater Manilius can be seen as the bright circular object to the right of the mare. To the south Rima Hyginus is visible as a light colored thin line. In the upper left hand side of the photo is the mountain range Montes Apenninus.
eponym	Sea of Vapors
coordinates
diameter	242.46 km

The 'Mare' area in selenochromatic Image (Si) with some landmarks (yellow/normal, red/pyroclastic). More infos here: <nowiki>https://www.gawh.it/main/selenocromatica</nowiki>

Western Mare Vaporum during sunrise, from [[Apollo 15

Mare Vaporum (Latin vapōrum, the "sea of vapors") is a lunar mare located between the southwest rim of Mare Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium. It was named by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1651.

Location and size

The mare lies in an old basin or crater that is within the Procellarum basin. It is 242 km in diameter and 55000 km2 in area, and is bordered to the northeast by the mountain range Montes Apenninus. In the south of the mare is Rima Hyginus, a rille intersected by the crater Hyginus. The lunar material surrounding the mare is from the Lower Imbrian epoch, and the mare material is from the Eratosthenian epoch.

References

"Mare Vaporum". lunar.arc.nasa.gov.
(August 5, 2024). "Lunar maria: a complete guide to the seas of the Moon". BBC.
{{gpn. 3694
''Autostar Suite Astronomer Edition''. CD-ROM. Meade, April 2006.
"Mare Vaporum".

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

maria-on-the-moon eratosthenian

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Mare Vaporum — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report