Plato                            Earth-based telescopic image                              Lunar Orbiter image .

Top: Cropped image of Plato by Legault. Larger original rotated 90 at  pla_m.jpg

Full-sized version of Lunar Orbiter image   LO4-127H

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Brief

Plato is a prominent walled plain with a dark floor in Section 3 in the  NW quadrant, visible even through binoculars. It is 101 km in diameter and has an average depth of about 1,000 m. Individual mountain peaks, on the eastern and western walls, rise to more than 2000 m above the floor, on which there are four craterlets about 2 km across, a test for larger telescopes.

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Other Lunar Orbiter images

http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-116H1.jpg  http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-122H3.jpg  http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-134H3.jpg  http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-128H1.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 3  Clickable Sections Map

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