Mare Moscoviense

The Mare Moscoviense (Latin for "Moscow Sea ") is a distinctive, dark lowlands amidst the mountainous moon back. It is beside the Mare Ingenii the only moon permanently faces away from us this sea side of the Moon and has a diameter of about 350 km.

Discovery and naming

Was discovered in the Mare - then called Mare Moskwa - as a dark object in images of the Soviet lunar probe Lunik 3, the first pictures sent in 1959 by the side of the moon to the earth. It was named after the Russian capital Moscow. The international spelling is, as with all structures on the Earth's moon customary Latin.

Formation

The Moscow sea is about as large as the Mare Nectaris Humorum or on the front of our satellites, but unlike them has no appreciable gravity anomaly in the background, ie no Mascon in the deep lunar crust or in the underlying mantle rocks. Like Mary on the visible moon half it should not be a caused by the impact of a large asteroid, about the size of the absence of Mascon effect, no reliable information is still possible. In all probability, this impact was followed but the slow effusion of basalt and lava bed. It is believed due to the conspicuous dark ground coloration that the Mare Moscoviense younger is just like the moon crater Tsiolkovskiy than the great Maria on the near side.

Environment

The Mare Moscoviense is in a durchzogenem with numerous craters Highlands. The Mare is surrounded by the remains of a circular mountain ring, which is caused by the impact. In its interior there are relatively few new craters, which is consistent with the theory of a young age. The largest craters are Komarov in the southeast and Titov in the north. The peculiar position of the dark Mare Moskva River in the middle of a bright, crater -covered highlands falls in recent recordings all the more, as only 200 km south an almost equally large structure is, the giant crater Mendeleev, and south- or west of it Gagarin and Korolev. You have no dark lava surface, but have mascons underground. However, Geologic selenografisch related or is the Apollo and the Hertzsprung Basin.

Gravitational field

The Moscow sea is about as large as the Mare Humorum on the front and has a similar but lesser gravity anomaly: slightly positive in the center, surrounded by an area strongly negative anomalies. Apart from the severity Lavafüllung this image is similar to that of 3 giant craters of the moon back, especially the circular impact basin Hertzsprung in the right half of the picture.

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