North Pole

Sylvester Florey Peary

Mouchez Challis De Sitter

75o Pascal
Anaxagoras 75o
Anaximenes Philolaus Cusanus
Barrow
Epigenes Neison
Anaximander
Moigno Arnold
W. Bond
Boole Pythagoras Birmingham Hayn
Fontenelle C. Mayer Kane
J. Herschel Timaeus Democritus Strabo
Cleostratus
60o Mare Frigoris Archytas Gärtner 60o
Rima Sheepshanks De La Rue
South Sea of Cold Mare Humboldtianum
Protagoras Sea of Alexander von Humboldt
Regnault La Condamine Rima Archytas Endymion
Markov
Harpalus Bliss
Rimae Maupertuis Plato
Sinus Roris Rimae Plato Keldysh
Galvani Bay of Dew Maupertuis Aristoteles
Vallis Alpes Mitchell
Bianchini Egede
MONTES RECTI
MONTES TENERIFFE MONTES ALPES
MONTES JURA
Promontorium Laplace Hercules
Lacus Temporis
Atlas
Rima Sharp Sharp Mons Pico
Lake of Time Boss
Sinus Iridum Mont Blanc Bürg
45o Gerard Eudoxus Lacus Spei 45o
Bay of Rainbows CHANG'E 3
Lacus Mortis
CHANG'E 5 Lake of Death Oersted Lake of Hope
Mason
Williams
Bunsen Mairan
Mons Rümker Promontorium Heraclides Mons Piton Cassini Cepheus
Helicon Le Verrier Alexander
Grove Riemann
Calippus Franklin Messala
Lavoisier Rima Mairan
LUNA 17
Mare Imbrium MONTES CAUCASUS
Rimae Daniell Lacus Somniorum
Lake of Dreams
Sea of Showers Gauss
Bernoulli
MONTES SPITZBERGEN
Aristillus Geminus
Hall Berosus
Aston Rimae Theaetetus
Sinus Lunicus
Dorsum Scilla Dorsum Heim Posidonius
Lunik Bay
Burckhardt Hahn
Dorsum Bucher Rima Delisle Autolycus
30o Delisle Dorsum Zirkel Dorsum Grabau Archimedes
LUNA 2
Mare Serenitatis Chacornac Newcomb Debes 30o
Dorsa Argand Mons Delisle
Rimae Fresnel
Sea of Serenity
Voskresenskiy Cleomedes
Palus Putredinis
Rupes Toscanelli Rima Artsimovich Dorsa Stille Timocharis Marsh of Decay Dorsum Azara Delmotte
Russel Briggs Rimae Archimedes Mons Hadley Dorsa Smirnov Le Monnier
Vallis Schröteri APOLLO 15
Prinz Lambert LUNA
LUNA21
9
MONTES ARCHIMEDES Rima Hadley Römer
Dorsum Arduino
Rima Bradley Eimmart
Struve Schiaparelli Aristarchus Dorsum Von Cotta Dorsa Aldrovandi Lacus Bonitatis
Herodotus Euler
Lake of Goodness Mare Anguis
Rima Brayley Hubble
Mons Bradley Serpent Sea
Rima Euler Bessel Littrow Macrobius
Seleucus Brayley MONTES APENNINUS
Pytheas
Balboa
LUNA 13
Oceanus Procellarum Mons Huygens Lacus Odii
Lake of Hatred
Rima Conon Lacus Felicitatis Dorsa Sorby
Dorsa Lister APOLLO 17
Mons
Vitruvius
Maraldi
Sinus Amoris
Bay of Love
Dorsum
Dorsa
Tetyaev
Cannon

Ocean of Storms Rima Draper

Mons Wolff
Sinus Fidei Lake of Happiness
Bay of Trust
Lacus Gaudii Rimae Menelaus
Dorsum Nicol

Rimae Plinius
Vitruvius
Oppel Peirce
Mare Crisium
Krafft Lacus Doloris
Rima Marius
Lake of Sorrow
Lake of Joy Menelaus Sea of Crises Alhazen
T. Mayer Marco Polo Lacus Hiemalis Plinius Proclus
Proclus` Goddard
15o MONTES CARPATUS Eratosthenes Manilius
Lake of Winter
Rima Jansen Yerkes Picard 15o
Lacus Lenitatis Palus Somni Dorsa
Cardanus Rima Gay-Lussac
Mare Vaporum Lake of Softness Marsh of Sleep Harker
Rima T. Mayer Mare Marginis
Bohr Rima Galilei Sea of Vapors LUNA 24
Sinus Aestuum Rimae Maclear Condorcet Sea of the Edge
Marius Hortensius Lick Dorsum
Rima Cardanus
Seething Bay Sinus Honoris Termier
Sinus Concordiae

Copernicus
Stadius
Rimae Boscovich
Bay of Honor
Mare Tranquillitatis Bay of Harmony Azout
Rimae Bode Julius Caesar Sea of Tranquility da Vinci Tebbutt
Jansky
Glushko Kepler Rimae Sosigenes Lacus Perseverantiae Condorcet
Rima Milichius Rima Hyginus Lake of Perseverance
Olbers Reiner Gamma
LUNA 9 Reiner Firmicus
Rima Suess Rima Ariadaeus Mare Undarum
Mare Insularum Arago
Fauth Pallas Sea of Waves
Sea of Islands Taruntius
Cavalerius Rimae Triesnecker Lamont Banachiewicz
Encke Apollonius Dubyago
Agrippa
Reinhold Rimae Ritter
Hedin Rimae Maestlin Kunowsky Dembowski Catena Taruntius LUNA 20
Schroter MONTES SECCHI
Hevelius Sinus Medii Ritter Maskelyne Condon
Godin
Gambart Bay of the center Sabine SURVEYOR 5 Mare Spumans Back
APOLLO 11 Sinus Successus
Rimae Hevelius SURVEYOR 6 Foaming Sea
Rhaeticus Dorsa Cato Bay of Success
0o Lohrmann Lansberg Rimae Hypatia 0o
60o 45o 30o 15o Mosting 15o 30o 45o LUNA 16
60o
Hermann Lade Mare Smythii
Rimae RiciollI Rima Oppolzer Delambre Messier Maclaurin
Ricciolli K Smyth's Sea
SURVEYOR 1
APOLLO 12 SURVEYOR 3
Flamsteed P. APOLLO 14
Flammarion Mare Fecunditatis Gilbert

Flamsteed Euclides P. Lalande

Saunder Hypatia
Torricelli Rimae Gutenberg Sea of Fecundity
Damoiseau Naonobu
Grimaldi Hipparchus Taylor
Herschel Biharz
Hartwig Fra Mauro
Lindsay Kao
Euclides
Sinus Asperitatis
Parry Bay of Roughness Capella Dorsa Mawson von Behring
MONTES RIPHAEUS Halley
Bonpland Gutenberg
APOLLO 16 Langrenus
Palisa Ptolemaeus
Dorsa Rubey Mare Cognitum Dorsum Guettard
Goclenius
Rocca W Sea of Knowledge Anděl Kant Barkla La Pérouse
Dorsa Ewing Madler Gaudibert
Lacus Autumni Guericke Albategnius
Davy Theophillus Daguerre
Lake of Autumn Rima Hansteen Klein Magelhaens
Sirsalis
Rocca Herigonius
Rimae Opelt Alphonsus Cyrillus
Billy Abulfeda Lohse
Rimae Kopf Rimae Herigonius
15o Lacus Aestatis Rimae Sirsalis
Parrot Mare Nectaris Lamé
15o
Colombo
Lake of Summer
Fontana
Sea of Nectar
Opelt Alpetragius Tacitus Bohnenberger Vendelinus
Lacus Veris Crüger Argelander Almanon
Lake of Spring Zupus Gassendi Cook
Lubiniezky Airy Catharina Beaumont
Arzachel Gibbs
Gould Geber Monge Holden
Rimae Darwin Petavius B Balmer
Mare Orientale Rima Agatharchides
Bullialdus Abenezra Santbech
Eastern Sea Mersenius Fracastorius Hecataeus
Mare Humorum Rupes Recta Thebit Azophi
Polybius
Lamarck Sea of Moisture Mare Nubium Catena Humboldt
La Caille Playfair
Henry Sea of Clouds Sacrobosco Wrottesley
Konig Rupes Altai
Lamarck D Byrgius Hippalus Borda Petavius
Rupes Liebig Purbach Blanchinus
Kies
Apianus Humboldt
Pettit Weinek
Rupes Kelvin Campanus Werner Palitzsch
Doppelmayer Regiomontanus Pontanus Rothmann G
Vieta Mercator Snellius Legendre Barnard
Wilkins Piccolomini Hase
30o Krasnov Fournier
Lee M. Rupes Mercator Rimae Pitatus
Poisson 30o
Lee Vitello Aliacensis Reichenbach
Palus Epidemiarum Rothmann
Lagrange R Neander
Marsh of Epidemics Weiss Zagut
Hell Deslandres Goodacre Stevinus
Rimae Ramsden Cichus Walther
Capuanus Gauricus Celsius
Gemma Frisius Rabbi Levi Stiborius Rimae Hase Abel
Nonius
Lacus Excellentiae Lexell
Piazzi Lake of Excellence Ball Furnerius
Kaiser
Riccius Rheita
Lacroix Fernelius Büsching
Vallis Bouvard Harlan
Lacus Timoris Sasserides Miller Buch Brenner
Heinsius Fraunhofer Marinus
Lehmann Lake of Fear
Orontius Metius Gum
Hainzel SURVEYOR 7 Huggins Stöffler
Maurolycus Young
Graff Faraday Nicolai Fabricius Hamilton
Wilhelm Tycho Pictet Saussure
Mee Oken
Schickard Lagalla
45o Baade Barocius Janssen 45o
Mallet
Street Proctor Lockyer Peirescius
Licetus Dove
Clairaut Mare Australe
Nöggerath Steinheil
Longomontanus Southern Sea
Maginus Cuvier
Nasmyth Pitiscus Lyot
Baco
Schiller Bayer
Phocylides
Vlacq
Yakovin Deluc Lilius Hommel Biela
Rost Porter Hanno
Jacobi
Segner Clavius Nearch
60o Hagecius 60o
Scheiner Zach Petrov
Bettinus Mutus Gill
Blancanus Pentland
Hausen
Bailly Cysatus Boussingault
Gruemberger Curtius Manzinus
Wilson Klaproth
Moretus Boguslawsky Neumayer
Casatus Simpelius
75o Le Gentil Short 75o
Newton

The Moon
Drygalski
Cabeus Scott
Faustini
South Pole

with English names 622 objects

LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY Maria and Oceanus Mare Tranquillitatis – Sea of Tranquility (N) Lacus Temporis – Lake of Time (N) SELECTED MISSIONS PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS ORBIT

names of lunar feartures: Oceanus Procellarum – Ocean of Storms (N) Mare Undarum – Sea of Waves (N) Lacus Timoris – Lake of Fear (N) Luna 2: 12 Spetember/13 September 1959 (USSR) Mean radius: 1 737.4 km (0,27 of Earth's) Semi-major axis: 384 400 km

Catena – Chain of craters Mare Anguis – Serpent Sea (N) Mare Vaporum – Sea of Vapors (N) Lacus Veris – Lake of Spring (N) Luna 9: 31 January /3 February 1966 (USSR) Equatorial radius: 1 738.1 km Orbit circumference: 2 413 402 km

Dorsum (dorsa) – Ridge Mare Australe – Southern Sea (N/F) Surveyor 1: 30 May/2 June 1966 (USA) Polar radius: 1 736.0 km Perigee: 363 104 km

Fossa (fossae) – Fault Mare Cognitum – Sea of Knowledge (N) Lacus Sinus Luna 13: 21 December/24 December 1966 (USSR) Flattening: 0,0012 Apogee: 405 696 km
2
Lacus – Lake Mare Crisium – Sea of Crises (N) Lacus Aestatis – Lake of Summer (N) Sinus Aestuum – Seething Bay (N) Surveyor 3: 17 April/20 April 1967 (USA) Surface area: 3,793×107 km Sideral period: 27,32 d

Mare – Sea Mare Fecunditatis – Sea of Fecundity (N) Lacus Autumni – Lake of Autumn (N) Sinus Amoris – Bay of Love (N) Surveyor 5: 8 September/11 September 1967 (USA) Distance from Earth: 384 403 km Synodic period: 29,53 d
22
Mons (montes) – Mount Mare Frigoris – Sea of Cold (N) Lacus Bonitatis – Lake of Goodness (N) Sinus Asperitatis – Bay of Roughness (N) Surveyor 6: 7 November/10 November 1967 (USA) Mass: 7,35×10 kg (0,012 of Earth's) Average orbital speed: 1,02 km/s
3
Oceanus – Ocean Mare Humboldtianum – Sea of Alexander Lacus Doloris – Lake of Sorrow (N) Sinus Concordiae – Bay of Harmony (N) Surveyor 7: 7 January/10 January 1968 (USA) Mean density: 3,34 g/cm Inclination to the celiptic: 5,15°
von Humboldt (N/F) 2
Palus – Marsh Lacus Excellentiae – Lake of Excellence (N) Sinus Fidei – Bay of Trust (N) Apollo 11: 16 July/20 July 1969 (USA) Surface gravity: 1,62 m/s (0,17 of Earth's)
Mare Humorum – Sea of Moisture (N)
Planitia – Plain Lacus Felicitatis – Lake of Happiness (N) Sinus Honoris – Bay of Honor (N) Apollo 12: 14 November/19 November 1969 (USA) Escape velocity: 2,38 km/s
Mare Imbrium – Sea of Showers (N)
Promontorium – Cape Lacus Gaudii – Lake of Joy (N) Sinus Iridum – Bay of Rainbows (N) Luna 16: 12 September/20 September 1970 (USSR) Rotation period: 29,53 d
Mare Ingenii – Sea of Cleverness (F)
Rima (rimae) – Rille Lacus Hiemalis – Lake of Winter (N) Sinus Lunicus – Lunik Bay (N) Luna 17: 10 November/17 November 1970 (USSR) Sidereal rotation period: 27,32 d
Mare Insularum – Sea of Islands (N)
Rupes – Cliff Lacus Lenitatis – Lake of Softness (N) Sinus Medii – Bay of the center (N) Apollo 14: 31 January/5 February 1971 (USA) Equatorial rotation velocity: 16,66 km/h
Mare Marginis – Sea of the Edge (N/F)
Sinus – Bay Lacus Luxuriae – Lake of Luxury (F) Sinus Roris – Bay of Dew (N) Apollo 15: 26 July/30 July 1971 (USA) Axial tilt: 3,60°–6,69° (1,54° to ecliptic)
Mare Moscoviense – Sea of Moscow (F)
Vallis – Valey Lacus Mortis – Lake of Death (N) Sinus Successus – Bay of Success (N) Luna 20: 14 February/21 February 1972 (USSR) Albedo: 0,12
Mare Nectaris – Sea of Nectar (N)
Lacus Oblivionis – Lake of Forgetfulness (F) Apollo 16: 16 April/21 April 1972 (USA) Apparent magnitude: -12,74 mag (mean full moon)
Mare Nubium – Sea of Clouds (N)
Lacus Odii – Lake of Hatred (N) Paludes Apollo 17: 7 December/11 December 1972 (USA) Angular diameter:
Mare Orientale – Eastern Sea (N/F) – perygeum: 33’28″
Lacus Perseverantiae – Lake of Perseverance (N) Palus Epidemiarum – Marsh of Epidemics (N) Luna 21: 8 January/15 January 1973 (USSR)
SYMBOLS: – apogeum: 29’55″
Mare Serenitatis – Sea of Serenity (N)
N – features on the near side Lacus Solitudinis – Lake of Solitude (F) Palus Putredinis – Marsh of Decay (N) Luna 24: 9 August/18 August 1976 1976 (USSR) 100 miles
Surface temperatures:
Mare Smythii – Smyth's Sea (N)
F – features on the far side Lacus Somniorum – Lake of Dreams (N) Palus Somni – Marsh of Sleep (N) Chang’e 3: 1 December/14 December 2013 (PRC) - (K) : min 40 / mean 25- / max 396
N/F – features on the near/far side edge Mare Spumans – Foaming Sea (N) - (°C) : min -233 / mean -10 / max 123 100 km
Lacus Spei – Lake of Hope (N) Chang’e 5: 23 lNovember/1 November 2020 (PRC) v 1.3.6.1-E September 2022

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