Sinus Aestuum

Sinus Aestuum in the local morning (left) and local noon (right). LRO

Images

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• Apollo 12'sHasselblad photographAS12-50-7434 shows an oblique northward view ofSinus Aestuum's eastern part (foreground) with bowl-shaped cratersBode C andH, and theMontes Apenninus below centre of the image. Research Danny Caes
• Apollo 17'sNikon photographAS17-160-23946 shows a north-south oriented view ofSinus Aestuum (mentioned asSeething Bay) east ofEratosthenes (right margin). Part ofMontes Apenninus is seen at the image's lower half. Research Danny Caes

Maps

(LAC zone 59A4)LAC mapGeologic map

Description

Wikipedia

Sinus Aestuum

Additional Information

• IAU page:Sinus Aestuum
• Mare area of 39,600 km^2 according to measurements byJim Whitford-Stark.
• LROC view of dark mantled deposits aroundSinus Aestuum region.

Nomenclature

• Sinus Aestuum was part of the original IAU nomenclature ofBlagg and Müller (1935).
• Section of theFace of the Woman in the Moon.
• Section of Ed Murray'sC orDark C.
• The nameSinus Aestuum is Latin, according to the IAU, for "Seething Bay", or according toWhitaker, "Bay of Seething Heat" (p. 87) or "Bay of Hot Days" (p. 216).
  • In a review of their book in the February 1955JBAA (page 121), Whitaker criticizesWilkins and Moore for translating the name as "Bay of Heat," saying the correct translation is "Bay of Billows."
• According to Whitaker (pp. 216-217), this name was introduced byRiccioli, although Riccioli used it for the feature now known asSinus Medii. Blagg, in herCollated List (#1270), found the present feature labeled with its modern name by all the authorities she consulted. Whitaker does not specify who moved it to its present location.
• Van Langren had previously referred to this area (plusMare Vaporum) asFretum Catholicum (Whitaker, pp. 192 and 200).
• Aestuum Pyroclastics, an unofficial name on chart 17 of the21st Century Atlas of the Moon (C.A. Wood/ M. Collins). The location of theAestuum Pyroclastics is north-northwest ofSchroter, at the same location of F.v.P. Gruithuisen's so called "lunar city".

LROC Articles

A Path Not Taken
DMD Excavations
Pyroclastic Trails
Striped Crater

LPOD Articles

What's happening at Aestuum?A radial section of debris

Lunar 100

• L79: Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit.

Bibliography

Wood, C.A. 8/2005. Pyroclastics on the Moon. S&T 110(2):62-63

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