Mare Cognitum

Mare Cognitum (Latin for " known sea " ) is a small lunar sea, which forms the southeastern part of the Oceanus Procellarum basin and slightly west of the visible moon middle.

It has an average diameter of 350 km and is bordered to the northwest by the mountains Riphaeus Montes, in the southeast to the Mare Nubium. Its center has the coordinates selenographic 11 ° South and 22 ° West.

Apollo 14 landed in the Fra Mauro crater near Mare Cognitum. Examined more closely, this was the first time in 1964 by the series of photographs of the impact probe Ranger 7