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Moon: Mare Vaporum, Rima Hyginus, Rima Ariadaeus

by

Astronominsk/Novapix

Reference

a-lun02-00092

Date

2009-06-25

Mare Vaporum with the L-shaped rays of Menelaus (top right) and the crater Manilius (top center). Below are Rima Hyginus and Rima Ariadaeus, a rille running in an almost straight line for 220km. Above, the crater Julius Caesar.
Image taken on April 3 2009, a day after the first quarter phase.