le Monnier                             Earth-based telescopic image                    Cropped Lunar Orbiter image .

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Brief

Le Monnier is a flooded crater with a very dark floor (not so evident in the image at left, which forms a small bay in Mare Serenitatis. It is 61 km wide and 2400 meters deep. Le Monnier straddles the borders of both Section 24 & 25. The Russian probe, Luna 21, landed in the southernmost portion of that crater.

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Other Lunar Orbiter images

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For the latest information and images regarding this section, including Apollo Hasselblad (H), Metric (M), and Panoramic (P) images, go to: Section 24 & 25  Clickable Sections Map

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