Lacus Doloris

Lacus Doloris - Latin for sea of agony - a solidified lava lake on the moon, of the larger Maria similar to that of the emergence ago. The term has been defined by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.

The small irregular Mare area has a mean diameter of 110 km and is located on the near side of the moon in the middle selenographic coordinates 17 ° 06 'N and 9 ° 00 ' East, between the Montes Haemus and the Mare Serenitatis in the Northeast and the Mare Vaporum in the southwest. Next to him is located in the northwest of the Lacus Odii, in the southeast Lacus Lacus Gaudii and Lenitatis and south of 39 km in diameter large crater Manilius.