Sinus Asperitatis

Sine Asperitatis is a small bay -like Mare ( moon) between the Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Nectaris on the Earth's moon. The Latin name means Bay of the roughness and was officially established in 1976 by ​​the International Astronomical Union.

The dark gray basalt surface of the solidified Lavameeres has a mean diameter of 220 km and connects the Sea of ​​Tranquility in the north of the Mare Nectaris in the south. During the middle selenographic coordinates 5 ° South and 27 ° East Inside the Mare gulf lies 23 km in diameter crater Torricelli, and at its southern edge of the 100 -kilometer crater Theophilus.