Sinus Lunicus

Sine Lunicus - Latin for Luna Bay - a bay of the Mare Imbrium is on the Earth's moon, which corresponds to the formation of the larger Maria ago. The appointment was made by the International Astronomical Union in 1970 for the first landing site of a spacecraft on the moon, 1959 by Lunik 2

The dark gray basalt surface of the solidified lava lake has an average diameter of 120 kilometers. The bay is located on the southeast edge of the Mare Imbrium. Southwest it borders on the crater Archimedes, northeast of the crater Aristillus, east is the crater Autolycus and northwest of the Montes Spitzbergen.