BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Area surrounding North Pole, central part of
Mare Frigorus, northern part of the Alps. Refer to your Antonin Rukl atlas
chart, page 35.
EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:
Image - Alpine Valley
(Genovese)
Image - Archytas
(Cazard)
Image - Plato
(Fattinnanzi) Newton 200 f6, Phillips vesta-pro webcam
LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar
Orbiter Database
Alpes, Valles
Anaxagorus, 51 km
Archytas, 32 km
Barrow, 93 km
Birmingham, 92 km
Byrd, 94 km
Challis, 56 km
Epigenes, 55 km
Gioja, 42 km
Goldschmidt, 120 km
Hermite, 110 km
Main, 46 km
Meton, 122 km
Peary, 74 km
Plato, Rimae
Protagoras, 22 km
Scoresby, 56 km
Timaeus, 33 km
Trouvelot, 9 km
W. Bond, 158 km
SMART-1 SPACECRAFT (European Space Agency)
Credits: ESA/Space-X, Space Exploration Institute
Image -
29 Dec 04 area of the Moon featuring Mouchez crater near
to lunar zero longitude.
RESEARCH UPDATES:
Mare Figoris & Archytas (Lunascan)
Alpine
Valley - EBTI & LO View (Collin)
Cloudlike Object Covering Half of Central Crater
in Alpine Valley (Childress)
Oblique
View Of Alpine Valley & Mare Nubium by lo5-m-102 (NASA)
