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| 1 | Mare Tranquillitatis  FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 401 Lat/Lng : 8.35 / 30.83 | Mare Tranquillitatis (Latin for Sea of Tranquility or Sea of Tranquillity; see spelling differences) is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The mare material within the basin consists of basalt formed in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch (...) | |
| 2 | Mare Fecunditatis FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -7.83 / 53.67 | Mare Fecunditatis (the "Sea of Fecundity" or "Sea of Fertility") is a lunar mare which is 840 km in diameter. (...) | |
| 3 | Mare Crisium FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 17.0 / 59.1 | Mare Crisium (the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. The basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago. (...) | |
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| Apollo 8 FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 8.1 / -165.0167 | Apollo 8, the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth (...) |
| 5 | Mare Serenitatis FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 353 Lat/Lng : 27.29 / 18.36 | Mare Serenitatis ("Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Its diameter is long covering about 7.5% of the circumference of the Moon. (...) | |
| 6 | Sinus Amoris FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 18.1 / 39.1 | Sinus Amoris (Latin for "Bay of Love") extends northward from the northeast end of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located at selenographic coordinates 18.1° N, 39.1° E, and lies within a diameter of 130 km. To the north of the bay are the jumbled Montes Taurus peaks (...) | |
| 7 | Mare Nectaris FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1616 Lat/Lng : -15.19 / 34.6 | Mare Nectaris ("Sea of Nectar") is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon's surface) located south of Mare Tranquillitatis southwest of Mare Fecunditatis, on the near side of the moon (...) | |
| 8 | Oceanus Procellarum FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 18.4 / -57.4 | Oceanus Procellarum (; Latin for "Ocean of Storms") is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Moon. It is the only one of the lunar maria to be called an "Oceanus" (ocean), due to its size: Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the maria, stretching more than across its (...) | |
| 9 | Sinus Asperitatis FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 658 Lat/Lng : -5.41 / 27.49 | Sinus Asperitatis (Latin for "Bay of Roughness") is an area of lunar mare that extends southward from the Mare Tranquillitatis until it joins the Mare Nectaris to the southeast. It is bordered along the western and eastern sides by continental regions of irregular terrain (...) | |
| 10 | Sinus Concordiae FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 698 Lat/Lng : 10.98 / 42.47 | Sinus Concordiae (Latin for "Bay of Harmony") is a bay (sinus) on the Moon that lies along the eastern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. Along its northern border is an area called the Palus Somni, while the southern border is an area of irregular terrain that contains the ruined crater Da Vinci (...) | |
| 11 | Mons Argaeus FeatureType : null Elevation : 289 Lat/Lng : 19.33 / 29.01 | Mons Argaeus is a mountainous massif on the Moon that extends for a length of 65 km towards the southeast. It is located at coordinates , wedging between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis on their eastern border (...) | |
| 12 | Ranger program FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -10.35 / -20.58 | The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, transmitting those images to Earth until the (...) | |
| 13 | Sinus Medii FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 1.63 / 1.03 | Sinus Medii ("Central Bay") is a small lunar mare. It takes its name from its location at the intersection of the Moon's equator and prime meridian; as seen from the Earth, this feature is located in the central part of the Moon's near side, and it is the point closest to the Earth (...) | |
| 14 | Palus Somni FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1582 Lat/Lng : 13.69 / 44.72 | Palus Somni (Latin for "Marsh of Sleep") is an area on the Moon of relatively level but somewhat uneven terrain that lies along the northeastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis and the Sinus Concordiae. It has selenographic coordinates 14.1° N, 45.0° E, and has a diameter of 163 km (...) | |
| 15 | Montes Haemus FeatureType : null Elevation : 411 Lat/Lng : 16.85 / 12.63 | Montes Haemus is a mountain that forms the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis basin on the Moon. They form a less prominent mirror image of the Montes Apenninus range to the west, and curve up to nearly join at the northern end (...) | |
| 16 | Mons Vitruvius FeatureType : null Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 19.33 / 30.74 | Mons Vitruvius is a mountain on the Moon that is located in the Montes Taurus region just to the north of Mare Tranquillitatis and to the southeast of Mare Serenitatis. This massif is located at selenographic coordinates of 19.4° N, 30.8° E, and it has a diameter across the base of 15 km (...) | |
| 17 | Sinus Honoris FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 440 Lat/Lng : 11.7 / 18.1 | Sinus Honoris (Latin for "Bay of Honour") is located along the western edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis located on the surface of the near side of the moon. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 11.7° N, 18.1° E, and it has a diameter of 109 km (...) | |
| 18 | Mons Esam FeatureType : null Elevation : 508 Lat/Lng : 14.59 / 35.73 | Mons Esam is a small, isolated mountain in the northern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located to the southeast of the crater Vitruvius, 15 to 20 km west of the crater Lucian and to the west-northwest of Lyell. To the northeast of this ridge is the bay called Sinus Amoris (...) | |
| 19 | Surveyor 5 FeatureType : null Elevation : 450 Lat/Lng : 2.41 / 23.18 | Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis. A total of 19,049 images were transmitted to Earth. (...) | |
| 20 | Rupes Cauchy FeatureType : null Elevation : 2389 Lat/Lng : 9.3 / 37.07 | Rupes Cauchy is a 120 km-long escarpment at on the surface of the Moon. It faces southwest, and rises about 200–300 m. It is located in the northeastern portion of the Mare Tranquillitatis, and is named after the nearby crater Cauchy (...) | |
| 21 | Ina (crater) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 360 Lat/Lng : 18.63 / 5.29 | Ina is a peculiar small depression ("crater" in IAU nomenclature) on the Moon, in Lacus Felicitatis. It is , wide and 64 m deep (from the deepest point of the bottom to the highest point of the rim). Ina is remarkable for several dozens of low hills with flat or rounded tops and very sharp rounded (...) | |
| 22 | Tranquility Base FeatureType : null Elevation : 511 Lat/Lng : 0.6742 / 23.4731 | Tranquility Base (Latin: Statio Tranquillitatis) is the site on the Moon where, in 1969, humans landed and walked on another celestial body for the first time. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module Eagle at approximately 20:17:40 UTC (...) | |
| 23 | Ranger 8 FeatureType : null Elevation : 444 Lat/Lng : 2.72 / 24.61 | Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early-to-mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for Apollo missions and were used for scientific study (...) | |
| 24 | West (lunar crater) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 452 Lat/Lng : 0.67 / 23.49 | West crater is a small crater in Mare Tranquillitatis on the moon, east of the Apollo 11 landing site, which is known as Tranquility Base. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle (...) | |
| 25 | Double (lunar crater) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 522 Lat/Lng : 0.67 / 23.47 | Double is a small crater (10-meter diameter) in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, west of the Apollo 11 landing site known as Tranquility Base. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle next to Double on July 20, 1969 (...) | |
| 26 | Ranger 6 FeatureType : null Elevation : 427 Lat/Lng : 9.4 / 21.5 | Ranger 6 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early and mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. It was designed to achieve a lunar-impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface (...) | |
| 27 | Little West (lunar crater) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 455 Lat/Lng : 0.682 / 23.462 | Little West is a small crater (30-meter diameter) in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, east of the Apollo 11 landing site known as Tranquility Base. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle approximately 60 meters west of Little West Crater on July (...) | |
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