Moretus (crater)

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The lunar crater Moretus is a great ring mountains near the south pole of the Moon with a diameter of 111-120 km.

It represents the most visible ring structure in the southern highlands, but from the earth only at a shallow angle visible (depending on the libration under 13-26 °). The inner rim of the crater walls is highly structured and has several terraces, as well as the central mountain, the 2,100 meter rises above the crater floor. The terraces and the structure of the central mountain can already be clearly seen with a telescope achtzölligen. The mountainous region behind this visible from Earth only at the very edge region and behind the adjacent crater Manzinus is also called Leibniz mountains whose heights are always in sunlight ( " mountains of eternal light ").

Links and literature

• Moretus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU ( WGPSN ) / USGS
• Skytrip.de, lunar crater Moretus ( 4 detailed images )
• Antonín Rükl: Moon, Mars, Venus. Pocket Atlas of perigee celestial bodies. Artia, Prague 1977, Map No. 74 ( also: Dausien, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-7684-2795-1 ).
• Josef Sadil: Focus on the moon. Urania -Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1962.