November 23, 2009
Appleton-Tsu Basin?
visualization of farside Kaguya altimetry data by Michael Zeiler (the vertical black line is the 180° meridian)
How many impact basins do you see? There are two obvious ones, the mare in the middle of the Moscovience Basin (left) was discovered at the beginning of the space age by Luna 3, and the Chuck Wood
Thanks to Jim Mosher and Henrik Bondo for the two LPODs when I was out of reach of the Internet!
The names Moscoviense and Freundlich - Sharonov cover the widths of those basins. The letter T is on top of the crater Tsu Chung-Chi, and A covers Appleton crater. The faint black line traces the rim of what could be a newly recognized basin, Appleton-Tsu.
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A closeup of Mare Moscoviense
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