Lacus Mortis

Lacus Mortis - Latin for Sea of Death - is a solidified lava lake on the northeastern front of the moon between the Mare Frigoris the north and the Mare Serenitatis to the south, the larger Maria similar to that of the emergence ago. The name comes from the Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli (1598-1671) and was officially defined by the International Astronomical Union in 1935.

The basaltic plain has a mean diameter of 151 km, an area of ​​approximately 21,000 km ² and is located in the northeast of the erdzugewandten side of the moon at the selenographic coordinates 45 ° 00 'North and 27 ° 12 ' East. The formation resembles a flooded crater. East at its center is the diameter 40 km wide crater Bürg. On their base runs the system of grooves Rimae guarantees that even the edge of Lacus Mortis Wall breaks through at one point.