BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The northern region of the Moon and the
western part of Mare Frigoris. The lower part of the section is occupied by the
walled plain Plato which has a very dark floor. Mare Frigoris and Mare Imbrium
are separated by a narrow "continental strip". Refer to your Antonin Rukl
atlas chart of the Moon, page 33.
EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:
Image
- Plato (Fattinnanzi) Newton 200 f6, Phillips vesta-pro webcam
Image - Plato,
emerging from the terminator (Ferreira)
Image - Plato
(Legault)
Image -
Plato (Therin)
Image - Plato
(Genovese)
Image - Plato
(Poyet)
Image - Plato
2 (Poyet)
Image -
Plato (Cidadao)
LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar
Orbiter Database
Anaximenes, 80 km
Brianchon, 145 km
Fontenelle, 38 km
Frigorus,
Mare
Maupertuis, Rimae
Mouchez, 82 km
Pascal,
106 km
Philolaus, 71 km
Plato, 101 km
Poncelet, 69 km
Sylvester, 58 km
CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
Plato, 101 km
Image
- Left side of the crater.
Image
- Crater imaged by the UV/Visible sensor at 1 micron during orbit 172 from an
altitude of 485 km. The width of the strip is about 47 km. The smallest craters
visible are 600 meters across.
SMART-1 SPACECRAFT (European Space Agency)
Credits: ESA/Space-X, Space Exploration
Institute
Image
- Brianchon & Pascal
Image
- 29 Dec 04 area of the Moon featuring Mouchez
crater near to lunar zero longitude.
RESEARCH UPDATES:
ESA SMART-1 News
Release
Plato (Lunascan)
Madler's Square Under
Investigation (Lunascan)
Domes - (Jon Floyd, VGL)
Lunar Anomalies - Tycho &
Plato (Bara)
