Hesiodus & Pitatus                             Earth-based telescopic image                         Cropped Lunar Orbiter image .

Larger version of above (by Cidadao)  Pitatus & Hesiodus

Full-sized version of Lunar Orbiter image  LO4-120H1

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Brief

Pitatus & Hesiodus take up the full screen here in this cropped image by Cidadao. Hesiodus is a flooded 43-km-wide crater to the left of larger Pitatus.  Pitatus is a flooded walled plain and is 97 km wide. Hesiodus A  is the dark crater at the 7 o'clock position of Pitatus and is one of the rare examples of a crater with double concentric walls. The diameter of the outer wall of Hesiodus A is 15 km. A similar formation, in an adjacent area, is the crater Marth, 7 km in diameter, which is located in Palus Epidemiarum (Section 63). Note: This image represents only the small area at the bottom of section 54.

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Other Lunar Orbiter images

http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-119H3.jpg  http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-113H1.jpg

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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 54  Clickable Sections Map

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