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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 (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fra Mauro is the worn remnant of a walled lunar plain.
		It is part of the surrounding Fra Mauro formation, being located to the northeast of Mare Cognitum and southeast of Mare Insularum.
		The surviving rim of Fra Mauro is heavily worn, with incisions from past impacts and openings in the north and east walls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fra_Mauro_(crater) (297 words)

	Fra Mauro - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Apollo 14 landed close to Fra Mauro in 1971.
		Angelico, Fra (1400?-1455), Italian painter of the early Renaissance, who combined the life of a devout friar with that of an accomplished painter....
		Fra Diavolo (1771?–1806), nickname of Michele Pezza, an Italian bandit.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Fra_Mauro.html (120 words)

	Fra Mauro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Fra Mauro formation on the Moon is the location of the Apollo 14 landing site.
		The ejecta blanket is now buried by younger rubble and lunar soil churned up by more recent meteoroid impacts and possible moonquakes.
		Although this area is seemingly uninteresting, it contains a number of geologically important locations and therefore is one of the most studied regions of the Moon.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/f/fr/fra_mauro.html (388 words)

	ALS Lunar Observers Certificate List of Objects
		Crater Fracastorius: a large crater which demonstrates the geologic history of the region: it transects the Nectaris Basin wall, indicating that it occurred after the Nectaris Basin impact.
		Crater chains are generally the result of a string of meteorites which are still gravitationally bound.
		Crater Tycho: One of the youngest complex craters on the moon.
	www.lunar-reclamation.org /observation_list.htm (2616 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.
		Andrea Bianco, a sailor-cartographer, is recorded as having collaborated with Fra Mauro in creating the map, as payments made to him between 1448 and 1459 testify.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fra_Mauro (264 words)

	Fantastic areas on the Moon
		Barely visible is the large crater called Fra Mauro at one end and the crater Guericke at the other.
		Clavius is a crater that is 135 miles or 225 km in diameter and the walls of this mighty crater rises to a height of over 12,000 miles or approximately 19,311 km above the crater floor.
		Crater JA is the smallest of the group.
	www.cfas.org /Library/fantastic_moon1.htm (1841 words)

	Cowley Lecture 17 - Earth and Its Nearest Cosmic Neighbor, The Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Two smaller craters near Archimedes (o) are mapped in the Copernican system because of their rough floors, and presumably evidence (that is not obvious in the photograph) that they are younger than Eratosthenes.
		Fra Mauro was used to name an important lunar formation.
		Material from the Fra Mauro formation is associated with the Imbrian event, but the Cayley formation might have accumulated over a wide interval of time.
	www.astro.lsa.umich.edu /~cowley/lecture17 (3346 words)

	Mare Insularum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mare is bordered by the craters Copernicus on the east, and Kepler on the west.
		To the north is the Montes Apenninus range and the prominent Eratosthenes crater.
		Along the western side is the flooded Stadius crater and the Mare Insularum to the southwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mare_Insularum (231 words)

	The Grand Canyon and the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Craters were seen to destroy the rims of other craters, so the craters with the damaged rims were surely older than those that destroyed their rims.
		A crater whose rays were cut or distorted by another was clearly the older of the two, and it was immediately found that the brightness of the rays was an indication of crater youth.
		Craters such as Archimedes, that are within maria and have flooded floors were formed after the Imbrian event, but before the extensive basalt flooding.
	www.astro.lsa.umich.edu /~cowley/GCandMoon.html (6042 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)

	ROBINSON LUNAR OBSERVATORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Ray Occured in the Crater HA, which I believe is part of Fra Mauro.
		The Crater HA is on Rukl Chart 43 North of Parry.
		I observed this ray while watching the 3 rays occuring in the crater Parry on March 12th, 2003 UT. I observed this ray at approximately 3:43-4:04 UT on 3/12/03.
	www.lunar-occultations.com /rlo/rays/framauroha.htm (302 words)

	Peter Lloyd's Fra Mauro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An ancient and battered crater, Fra Mauro is about 4,000 million years old.
		Parry, on the other hand, is believed to be of the same age but looks as though it may have avoided flooding (although its flat floor may indicate otherwise).
		It is 50 Km in diameter and only 560 metres deep, which suggests that it has been flooded but that its walls were higher than those of Fra Mauro.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.lloyd3/Moon/Craters/FraMauro050218.html (133 words)

	Apollo Lunar Module
		In the last seconds before landing, the LM was manually piloted by Neil Armstrong to avoid a sharp-rimmed ray crater which measured 180 meters across and 30 meters deep.
		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.
		Site, Taurus-Littrow, takes its name from the Taurus mountains and Littrow crater which are located in a mountainous region on the southeastern rim of the Serenitatis basin.
	www.fi.edu /pieces/schutte/LMsites.html (288 words)

	GPN-2000-001144 - "Antares" on the Frau Mauro Highlands
		GPN-2000-001144 - "Antares" on the Frau Mauro Highlands
		The unusual ball of light was said by the astronauts to have a jewel-like appearance.
		Apollo 14 Lunar Module LM Antares Cone Crater Fra Mauro Highlands Moonwalk
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001144.html (67 words)

	Moon Society: Lunar Study and Observing Certificate
		Crater Copernicus: (2) (3) Excellent example of a complex crater from the Copernican Period.
		Crater Hortensius: [domes to the north] Excellent example of a simple crater.
		Crater Tycho:(2) One of the youngest complex craters on the Moon.
	www.moonsociety.org /certificate/certificate.html (3150 words)

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		By visiting Fra Mauro we hope to sample the very bedrock of the Moon, material very different from that so far collected.
		Going by Cone Crater right outside to my right." (Dr. Robbin Brett) "We think that the Fra Mauro area was formed from material thrown out by the impact that created the Imbrium basin to the North.
		I don't see a crater yet." "I agree." Standing in a boulder field surrounded by rocks 10 to 12 feet [3.0 to 3.7 m] long, the astronauts made their most difficult decision.
	www.sworld.com.au /steven/space/apollo/apollo14.txt (2912 words)

	Apollo 14 Orbital Views of the Landing Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Cone Crater (the sharp-rimmed crater at the upper right portion of the photograph) was visited by astronauts Alan Shepard and Ed Mitchell during the second EVA.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/Apollo14/A14_LandingSite_viewsof.html (334 words)

	The moon's fault line.
		The rays are formed by the debris blasted out of the crater when it was formed by the impact of a meteorite.
		Near the west limb of the moon are two very small craters, 10 and 8 miles in diameters.
		These little dots are the craters Galileo and Galileo A, two of the smallest named craters on the moon.
	www.answering-christianity.com /moon_fault_line.htm (861 words)

	FRA
		FRA Region 2 covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Ohio.
		FRA Region 1 covers New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine.
		FRA established an honorary awards program and ceremony in 1973.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/environment/FRA.html (399 words)

	Astromaterials Curation at NASA JSC
		Cratering mechanics predicts that samples from different radial distance from the basin rim will provide materials from different depths beneath the lunar surface.
		Figure 7: Meter-size craters in the lunar regolith are capable of producing soil brecias like 15299.
		As the moon is an airless planet, meteorites hit the surface at full force, creating craters large and small, fragmenting the lunar surface and forming what is known as the lunar regolith (figure 7).
	www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov /lunar/introduction.cfm (3691 words)

	B.20 Is it possible to see the Moon landing sites? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is possible to locate and observe the Apollo landing "sites," but it is not possible with current equipment to see the hardware left there, since their sizes are far too small to be resolved successfully.
		E., higlands north of the ruined crater Descartes and southeast of the double crater Dolland B/C. APOLLO 17: 20.16 deg.
		E., in the southwestern Taurus Mountains roughly between the craters Littrow and Vitruvius.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/astronomy/faq/part2/section-22.html (377 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 low-illumination angle emphasizes the undulating surface texture of the Fra Mauro formation.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=823 (106 words)

	Fra Mauro formation - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fra Mauro formation - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)
		The Fra Mauro formation (or Frau Mauro Highlands) on the Moon is the location of the Apollo 14 landing site.
		Fra Mauro was the intended landing site for Apollo 13 which, due to mechanical failure, was not able to complete its mission to land on the moon.
	www.medbib.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Fra_Mauro_formation (429 words)

	Observatorio ARVAL - Moon Map
		32- Vallis Schröteri (Schröter's Valley) [Northwest of Crater Aristarchus, 73, and North of Crater Herodotus]
		68- Crater Billy [Mons Hansteen is to the North of Crater Billy]
		79- Crater Harpalus [Crater Pythagoras is North of Crater Harpalus]
	www.oarval.org /MoonMapen.htm (445 words)

	NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft
		EST) on 5 February 1971 in the lunar highlands near the crater Fra Mauro at 3.6453 S latitude, 17.4714 W longitude (IAU Mean Earth Polar Axis coordinate system).
		The LM landed on the slope of a small depression, tilted at 8 degrees.
		During the second EVA, which took place from 8:11:15 to 12:45:56 UT on 6 February, the astronauts walked almost to the rim of nearby Cone crater, collecting samples along the traverse.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=1971-008C (1399 words)

	Alumni and Donors \| College of Engineering & Applied Science\| University of Colorado at Boulder
		When Apollo 13 crewman Thomas Mattingly was sidelined by an exposure to measles, it was decided that Swigert was qualified to step into his place as command module pilot on 72 hours' notice.
		Had not a ruptured oxygen system prevented the flight from reaching its destination at Fra Mauro Crater, Swigert would have piloted the command module, as CU alumnus Stuart Roosa did later for the Apollo 14 flight.
		After the near-disaster, the Apollo 13 astronauts worked effectively to convert their lunar module "Aquarius" into a lifeboat and returned after six days in space.
	www.colorado.edu /engineering/deaa2/cgi-bin/display.pl?id=52 (404 words)

	Apollo Expeditions to the Moon: Chapter 12 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Their landing site was about 1300 miles west of where Apollo 11 had landed, on a surface believed covered by debris splashed out from the crater Copernicus some 250 miles away.
		The exact site was a point where, 31 months before, the unmanned lunar scout Surveyor III had made a precarious automatic landing.
		The targeting data were just about perfect, but I maneuvered around the crater, landing at a slightly different spot than the one we had planned.
	www.hq.nasa.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /office/pao/History/SP-350/ch-12-1.html (763 words)

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