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Sinus Medii, Hipparchus, Rimae Oppolzer & Réaumur Oct-14-06


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Danny Caes 18-Feb-2007 15:50
A very interesting photograph!!!
To think that somewhere near the top-left corner of this photograph are both the impact-site of Surveyor 4 and landing-site of Surveyor 6 (west-southwest of crater Bruce). See also map 33 and map 44 in Antonin Rukl's moonatlas.
This area (near the moon's "middle") was frequently photographed during the orbital mission of Apollo 10 (Cernan, Stafford, Young). Most of those orbital Hasselblads show the Rhaeticus/ Sinus Medii region during local sunrise.

Danny Caes,
Public Observatory of Ghent - Belgium.
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