Lacus Autumni

Lacus Autumni - Latin for Autumn lake - is a solidified lava lake on the moon, of the larger Maria similar to that of the emergence ago. The name was officially confirmed by the International Astronomical Union in 1970.

The dark gray basalt surface has an average diameter of 183 km and is located on the western edge of the erdzugewandten side of the moon at the selenographic coordinates 12 ° South and 83 ° West between the Montes Rook and Montes Cordillera.