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	Fra Mauro
		Fra Mauro debris may have come from as deep as 100 miles (161 km) below the original lunar crust, and returned samples provide evidence of when the Imbrium basin was formed and help to establish the age and physical/chemical nature of pre-impact material from deep in the crust.
		The Fra Mauro formation became more interesting to scientists when the Apollo 12 seismometer at Surveyor crater 110 miles (177 km) to the west relayed to Earth signals of monthly moonquakes believed to have originated in the Fra Mauro crater as the Moon passed through its perigee.
		The Fra Mauro crater and surrounding formation take their names from a 15th century Italian monk and mapmaker, who in 1457 mapped the then-known Mediterranean world with suprising accuracy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Fra_Mauro.html (375 words)

	Fra Mauro map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fra Mauro map is unusual in that its orientation is with the south at the top, one of the usual conventions of Muslim maps, in contrast with the Ptolemy map which has the north at the top.
		Fra Mauro explained that he obtained the information from "a trustworthy source", who traveleled with the expedition, possibly the Venetian explorer Niccolo Da Conti who happened to be in Calicut, India at the time the expedition left.
		Fra Mauro also probably relied on Arab sources, as well as, possibly Chinese sources as described by Ramusio, a contemporary who states that Fra Mauro's map is "an improved copy of the one brought from Cathay by Marco Polo".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fra_Mauro_map (1291 words)

	Slide #249 Monograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Curiously enough, on Fra Mauro's map the eastern end of the gulf may be said to be on the meridian of Tunis, as in fact the eastern terminus of the Gulf of Guinea is. As to the latter speculation, to have crossed the meridian of Alexandria would have entailed rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
		Fra Mauro's delineation, however, differs from that of the latter in two respects: the coast of China is broken by several long and narrow gulfs, which upon inspection are seen to be merely over-emphasized estuaries or important ports such as Zaiton.
		Fra Mauro's map, along with the Martin Behaim globe of 1492 (Slide #258), form the transition in cartography between medieval thought and that of the great age of discovery.
	www.henry-davis.com /MAPS/LMwebpages/249mono.html (4348 words)

	Fra Mauro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fra Mauro was a 15th century Italian Camaldolese monk from the island of Murano near Venice.
		Fra Mauro created the map under a commission by king Alfonso V of Portugal.
		The Fra Mauro crater and associated Fra Mauro formation of the Moon are named after him; they were visited by the Apollo 14 astronauts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fra_Mauro (264 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: A Mapmaker's Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Venice, located at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, was the crossroads of the world; to the north, the heart of Europe, to the east, the vastness of Asia, and the sea routes to the south led to the East and the Americas.
		As a mapmaker, Fra Mauro is a conduit for knowledge, greeting travelers, from the far-gazing sailor with salt still in his beard, to the bone-weary merchant dusty from the caravan's trail.
		Fra Mauro is at times full of self-doubt, gnawed at by the frustration of never having traveled himself, and prone at times to self-loathing for just this reason.
	www.bookpage.com /9610bp/nonfiction/amapmakersdream.html (439 words)

	Apollo 13 Summary
		The Fra Mauro Hills are believed to be part of the extensive ejecta blanket laid down by the impact that formed the huge Imbrium Basin; and Cone Crater had been dug into a ridge of this material.
		During the last half of the approach, the astronauts would have to climb a grade of about one in ten and the traverse promised to be a significant test of astronaut mobility.
		In terms of lunar surface activities, the Fra Mauro mission was far more ambitious than either of the other landings and, unfortunately, it took two tries to complete.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/apo13.htm (3825 words)

	Fra Mauro definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Fra Mauro definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Fra Mau·ro eroded crater on the Moon north of Mare Nubium, approximately 95 km (59 mi) in diameter.
		Apollo 14 landed close to Fra Mauro in 1971.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861673419 (82 words)

	Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 42 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Apollo 14 landed a few Km north of the north wall of Fra Mauro.
		In the floor of Fra Mo, there are countless little craters that normally don't show up, but were clear tonight -- literally dozens, creating a sort of dimpled terrain like orange peel paint with glistening edges.
		Fra Mauro and its two nearby craters are easily identified because they look like Mickey Mouse.
	www.shallowsky.com /moon/rukl42.html (326 words)

	1421 - The year China discovered the world - Maps
		This map was drawn in 1459 by Fra Mauro, a cartographer based on the island of San Michele in the Venetian Lagoon, but working for Dom Pedro of Portugal.
		Fra Mauro has correctly drawn the Cape of Good Hope (which he had called Cap de Diab) with its easily identifiable triangular shape, and had done so 30 years before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape.
		Fra Mauro says "....around the year 1420, a ship or junk [coming] from India on a non stop crossing of the Indian Ocean....was driven beyond Cap de Diab and through the Isole Verde and obscured islands towards the west and south-west for 40 days...."
	www.1421.tv /maps.asp (976 words)

	Apollo 14 Landing Site
		The 700-mile (1126 km) wide Mare Imbrium is the largest recognizable impact structure on the Moon, and is thought to have been formed by a major impact of a huge mass colliding with the Moon during the period when the Earth and the planets were forming.
		The Fra Mauro formation is believed to be made up of an ejecta blanket thrown out by that impact.
		ra Mauro debris may have come from as deep as 100 miles (161 km) below the original lunar crust, and returned samples provide evidence of when the Imbrium basin was formed and help to establish the age and physical/chemical nature of pre-impact material from deep in the crust.
	www.nasm.si.edu /collections/imagery/apollo/AS14/a14landsite.htm (373 words)

	Apollo 14 Mission Summary
		The Fra Mauro Formation is an extensive geological unit that is distributed (in an approximately radially symmetric fashion around the Mare Imbrium) over much of the nearside of the Moon.
		The Fra Mauro Formation is thought to be part of the ejecta blanket that resulted from the excavation of the Imbrium Basin, which is the largest circular mare on the Moon.
		The site was located in a broad, shallow valley between radial ridges of the Fra Mauro Formation and approximately 500 kilometers from the edge of the Imbrium Basin.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/Apollo14/A14_Overview_summary.html (507 words)

	Apollo 14 Orbital Views of the Landing Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The arrow points to the landing site in the Fra Mauro Formation, interpreted to be ejecta from the impact that produced the Imbrium Basin (north of this photograph).
		The sharp-rimmed crater near the center of the photograph is Fra Mauro D. The degraded rim of Fra Mauro Crater makes a broad arc through the center of the photograph, with the crater interior to the lower left.
		Cone Crater is on one of the ridges that compose the distinctive Fra Mauro Formation relief.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/Apollo14/A14_LandingSite_viewsof.html (334 words)

	Apollo 13 Mission Log Day 2: From the Moon, Knowledge
		The promise of Fra Mauro could only be realized by trained explorers -- and that is what Jim Lovell and Fred Haise had to become before they left Earth.
		The terrain in the left portion of this photograph is the Fra Mauro Formation.
		But beginning on Apollo 12, there was a change: On the way to the moon, the astronauts briefly fired their service module's main engine to throw away their free ticket home and go onto a so-called hybrid trajectory.
	www.space.com /news/spacehistory/apollo13_day2_000412.html (765 words)

	Spacecraft Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Coming just 9 months after the failure of Apollo 13, the mission was an ambitious attempt to land in the Fra Mauro highlands, a region of the moon more challenging than previous explorations.
		Destined to be the only original Mercury astronaut to walk on the moon (and the only man to play golf on it), Shepard had been grounded since his 15 minute suborbital flight in 1961 due to a disease which impared his equilibrium.
		Shepard, along with lunar module pilot Ed Mitchell and command module pilot Stu Roosa, both space "rookies," overcame docking and radar difficulties to execute a spectacular visit to the Fra Mauro region.
	www.spacecraftfilms.com /apollo14.html (221 words)

	FRA MAURO's World Map: with a commentary and translations of the inscriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		FRA MAURO's World Map: with a commentary and translations of the inscriptions
		"Fra Mauro’s map of the world — a masterpiece of western cartography, composed around 1450 — has until now never been the subject of a modern study, despite its immense renown.
		The map has been reproduced and cited in hundreds of books, but the most recent full study was in 1806: Placido Zurla’s Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro.
	www.artbooks.com /titles/079/Item79274.htm (243 words)

	Space Cowboy Saloon
		would have landed at Fra Mauro, but that site was given to Al and Ed on 14 after the accident.
		Fra Mauro is just to the East of 12's landing site.
		Apollo 14 is on the way to the Fra Mauro Highlands.
	groups.msn.com /spacecowboysaloon/apollo14underconstruction.msnw (1166 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giacinto Placido Zurla
		Cardinal Vicar of Rome, writer on medieval geography, born at Legnano, of noble parents, 2 April, 1769; died at Palermo, 29 Oct., 1843.
		At the age of eighteen Zurla entered the Camaldolese Monastery of San Michele di Murano at Venice, where he found a life-long friend in Mauro Cappellari (afterwards Gregory XVI), a young monk of his own age.
		As librarian, his attention was attracted by the map of the world executed between 1457 and 1459 by the famous Camaldolese geographer Fra Mauro, and in 1806 he published an account of it entitled "Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15771a.htm (362 words)

	Book Review by Ann Skea
		Fra Mauro, "a consummate mapmaker", lived on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Venetian Lagoon.
		His private journal records the visits of many travellers to his monk's cell, the stories they and various correspondents tell him about the world, and his own attempts to incorporate all this information into a mappa mundi which he is in the process of creating.
		A scholar speaks of feeling the spirit presence of a mummified Egyptian princess; a Franciscan monk tells of cartwheeling, one-eyed, one armed Cyclopedes and of men who could not bear the noise of the rising sun; there is the legend of Prester John; and the miracle of the saints tomb which exudes honey.
	www.eclectica.org /v1n6/skea2.html (635 words)

	Biblioteca Marciana newsletter n.6 - "Music for... Fra' Mauro"
		A masterpiece of Renaissance cartography, the planisphere of Fra' Mauro attracts a great number of visitors every year.
		These include a young English composer, Andrew Lovett, the composer of Unknown Terrors, a piece of about twenty minutes for cello, keyboard and electronic music, in which he has translated into music the intriguing idea of a mental journey in the geography of the imagination.
		He was inspired by the legendary figure of Fra' Mauro, as he is described in James Cowan's book, Mapmaker's Dream.
	marciana.venezia.sbn.it /news6/eng/art9.html (210 words)

	Peter Lloyd's Lunar Pages
		The western side of Fra Mauro also looks as though it is filled with rubble.
		An ancient and battered crater, Fra Mauro is about 4,000 million years old.
		Although the wall of Parry is intact, its floor has been flooded to about the same level as Fra Mauro.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.lloyd3/Moon/Craters/FraMauro.html (548 words)

	Apollo 14 Mission Patch
		The planned landing site for the Apollo 13 mission, Fra Mauro, contains some of the most clearly exposed geological formations that are characteristic of the Fra Mauro Formation.
		The formation is an extensive geological unit that is distributed -- in an approximately radially symmetric fashion around the Mare Imbrium -- over much of the nearside of the Moon.
		After the Apollo 13 mission failed to achieve a lunar landing, the importance of the Fra Mauro landing site led to a decision to attempt a landing in the same area during the Apollo 14 mission.
	www.thespacestore.com /ap14mispat.html (250 words)

	FMindex
		Questa pagina contiene strumenti e risorse che intendono favorire lo studio del mappamondo di Fra Mauro (ca.
		Fra Mauro alfabetico *Testo delle iscrizioni del mappamondo in ordine alfabetico / Text of the inscriptions in alphabetical order
		Fra Mauro numerico *Corpus delle iscrizioni ordinate per tavola, con riferimento all'edizione 1956 / Inscriptions ordered by table referred to the edition of the map published in 1956 by the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Rome
	geoweb.venezia.sbn.it /geoweb/HSL/FraMauro/FraMauroIndex.html (97 words)

	Apollo 13 & Fra Mauro. Bad? - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
		In the movie I've noticed that several times the Apollo 13 landing site of Fra Mauro is pronounced differently.
		Somtimes it's pronounced like it is spelled (e.g., "Fra Moro"), and other times like "Frau Mora".
		This is a easy pronunciation mistake to make, but I am wondering...did the real astronauts have slips of the tongue as well and the different pronunciation was intentional to reflect it, or is it just the actors flubbing the line?
	www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?t=1591 (188 words)

	CGPublishing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the unfortunate accident which befell Apollo 13 the job of getting NASA back to the moon fell on the shoulders of America's oldest astronaut Alan B. Shepard.
		After undergoing treatment the "Icy Commander" was bumped to the top of the flight roster and appointed to command the flight of Apollo 14 to the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon.
		Spending nearly 10 hours on the moon in February 1971 Shepard and Lunar Module pilot Edgar Mitchell conducted a wide range of scientific experiments including Shepard's unplanned test of the flight of a golf ball in lunar gravity.
	www.cgpublishing.com /Books/Apollo14.html (282 words)

	www.framauro.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fra Mauro is a Software Development Company dedicated to provide a variety of IT services and software solutions, focusing in the following areas:
		Since its creation in 1997, our company has been involved in several projects amongst the European space community.
		Based in Barcelona (Spain), Fra Mauro is currently providing services to the European Astronauts Center, a European Space Agency (ESA) establishment located in Cologne (Germany).
	www.framauro.com (81 words)

	Apollo Lunar Module
		Mission aborted and did not land on moon.
		The site selected was the Fra Mauro crater.
		Landed at Fra Mauro 3.65 S, Site was a hilly region about 30 miles (49.3 km) north of the Fra Mauro crater--the same site selected for the aborted Apollo 13 mission.
	sln.fi.edu /pieces/schutte/LMsites.html (288 words)

	Ray Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At 01:56 U.T., I observed a short, narrow ray in Fra Mauro HA.
		It extended almost the length of the crater floor.
		By 02:50 U.T. (in less than an hour), the floor was completely illuminated, except for a slight shadow on part of the eastern floor area.
	www.lunar-occultations.com /rlo/rays/framaurohar.htm (226 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Multimedia: Gallery: Apollo 14 Landing Site
		The landing site selected for Apollo 14 was in the Fra Mauro formation near Cone Crater, with the primary objective of sampling material excavated by the Imbrium impact.
		The hilly terrain covering much of the left portion of the photograph is the Fra Mauro formation, material interpreted to be ejecta from the Imbrium Basin.
		The sharp-rimmed crater on the northern rim of Fra Mauro Crater is Fra Mauro D. Image Credit: NASA
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=823 (106 words)

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