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.
Coordinates
13°18′N3°36′E / 13.3°N 3.6°E / 13.3; 3.6
Diameter
242 km (150 mi)[1]
Eponym
Sea of Vapors
Oblique view facing south of Mare Vaporum from lunar orbit (Apollo 17)Western Mare Vaporum during sunrise, from Apollo 15
Mare Vaporum/væˈpɔːrəm/ (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.[2][3]
The mare lies in an old basin or crater that is within the Procellarum basin. It is 242 kilometers (150 mi) in diameter and 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi) 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.[citation needed]
Lunar nearside with major maria and craters labelled.
^"Mare Vaporum". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
^"Mare Vaporum". lunar.arc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on March 15, 2002. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
^Autostar Suite Astronomer Edition. CD-ROM. Meade, April 2006.
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spanning a length of 300 km (186.4 mi), it stretches between Mare Tranquillitatis and MareVaporum. Some scientists think that the linear rilles might have...
occur at Taurus–Littrow, Sinus Aestuum, Sulpicius Gallus, Rima Bode, MareVaporum, Mare Humorum and the Aristarchus plateau in the central near side of the...
connects with Mare Tranquillitatis to the southeast and borders MareVaporum to the southwest. Mare Serenitatis is an example of a mascon, an anomalous gravitational...
north of the MareVaporum. About 70–80 km to the northeast of this area are the Montes Haemus, along the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis. The...
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impact crater on the Moon is named after him: Manilius is located in the MareVaporum. "[TCP] The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations...
0°E / 1.6; 1.0, and its diameter is 287 km. It joins Mare Insularum in the west with MareVaporum to the north. The eastern part of this area is notable...
formed by an area of irregular terrain that divides the bay from the MareVaporum to the east. To the north is the Montes Apenninus range and the prominent...
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borders of the area, and fill much of the terrain between MareVaporum and the Montes Haemus. These mare-like features are generally irregular in shape, and...
modernamuseet.se. "Doug and Mike Starn | Horses". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Mare Imbrium et MareVaporum". www.moca.org. Starns brothers' website...
briefly misidentified as a mare and named Mare Desiderii (Sea of Desire). It is no longer recognized. Other former maria include: Mare Parvum ("Small Sea")...
(Latin sinus fideī "Bay of Trust") is a small basaltic mare feature in the north of MareVaporum on the Moon. Volcanism on the Moon "Sinus Fidei". Gazetteer...
landing point. Wilhelms, D. E.: Fra Mauro and Cayley Formations in the MareVaporum and Julius Caesar Quadrangles. In Part A of Astrogeological Studies Annual...
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