Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 42(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This is one of the best-explored areas of the Moon; two Apollo spacecraft and one each Surveyor, Ranger, and Luna probe descended here.
There are some nicely formed domes on both sides of MontesRiphaeus, along with a curiously sharp portion of a wrinkle ridge near Eppinger that has more than once fooled me into thinking, for a moment, that I've spotted a rille.
An interesting wedge-shaped wrinkle ridge heads southeast of MontesRiphaeus nearly to Eppinger.
Two years and 9 months later, Surveyor 3 landed on the mare north of MontesRiphaeus along a ray of bright material emanating from the crater Copernicus.
The large terra mass in the foreground is MontesRiphaeus, which consist of the unflooded remnants of the rim of a large basin and the rims of two or three inundated craters.
At their western slope is the sinuous Hadley Rille, which was examined at close range by the Apollo 15 astronauts who drove to its eastern rim in the first manned roving vehicle used on the Moon.
For me, the most interesting features imaged were Clavius (previously published in this blog), Copernicus and MontesRiphaeus, and finally the Plato area (will be published in the near future).
In stark contrast with this young crater is the old crater Euclides P, which lies to the north of MontesRiphaeus, on the shores of Mare Insularum.
To the East of the MontesRiphaeus, in the hills north of Fra Mauro (Rukl 42) you can see the Apollo 14 landing place.
I know he wasn't expecting to be on a lonely mountain road and have a fl vampyre with long hair step out from behind the trees.
Knowing it was you in my heart when I walked by, but also knowing half my life was in a suitcase and a precious Vixen telescope was going round and round in the luggage terminal.
I might trip over my feet, be totally unable to articulate more than four words in a meaningful way, and be incapable of using your telescope, but I operate on a wicked learning curve...
The MontesRiphaeus were extensive; they could hold out for years in here, decades, constantly moving from one stronghold to the next.
The population leaned Democratic, but seemed genuinely interested in what Houston had to say; Flamsteed was a logistics point for the military serving in the MontesRiphaeus, and had been hit hard by a carbombing that had killed seven soldiers.
The high point of the tour came when Houston visited a small memorial to the soldiers who had been lost in the campaign in the MontesRiphaeus; it was a small, touching cairn, with a tablet inscribed with the names of the fallen.
ROBINSON LUNAR OBSERVATORY(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
On the night of Friday, May 28, 2004, I observed a previously unreported lunar light ray in MontesRiphaeus, a 150 kilometer long mountain range that lies south of the crater Lansberg.
What I saw was a thin shaft of light running westward to the terminator, just south of an arc-shaped region in the Riphaeus Mountains.
It was partly cloudy with high thin clouds and haze.
Le sigue Lambert donde destaca en Mons LaHire, un monte aislado de 10 x 20 km.
Después tenemos una foto de los MontesRiphaeus donde podemos apreciar el pequeño cráter Euclides D conocido hasta no hace mucho por Eppinger, quién perdió el privilegio de dar nombre a una formación lunar por los motivos que comentábamos en este artículo.
Después tenemos a Reinhold, situado al sur de Copernicus y por último un mosaico de varias imágenes en el que se ven Plato con sus cinco cratercillos interiores y los Montes Alpes donde se aprecia el impresionante Vallis Alpes y casi se adivina la grieta que discurre por el valle.
Gray Moon(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A month in space with these people had given him an idea of where he stood with most of them, but that bit of psychology placed Helena near the top of the list of people he felt he could rely on.
Eagle One flew low over the lunar surface of Mare Cognitum enroute for MontesRiphaeus, having just unloaded their third camera/sensor package.
Three more units to unload, and then Carter and his co-pilot, Peter Johnson, could continue their debate over a cup of moonbase coffee.
(km) Mons Agnes 18.6N 5.3E 1.0 Montes Agricola 29.1N 54.2W 141.0 Montes Alpes 46.4N 0.8W 281.0 Mons Ampère 19.0N 4.0W 30.0 Mons André 5.2N
10.0 Montes Apenninus 18.9N 3.7W 401.0 Montes Archimedes 25.3N 4.6W 163.0 Mons Ardeshir 5.0N
8.0 Mons Argaeus 63.6S 30.1E 77.0 Mont Blanc 45.0N 1.0E 25.0 Mons Bradley 22.0N 1.0E 30.0 Montes Carpatus 14.5N 24.4W 361.0 Montes Caucasus 38.4N 10.0E 445.0 Montes Cordillera 17.5S 81.6W 574.0 Mons Delisle 29.5N 35.8W 30.0 Mons Dieter 5.0N
Landings on the Moon Date Spacecraft Coords Location Province Until Status COSPAR 1959 Sep 13 Luna-2 30N 1W Sinus Lunicus, Mare Imbrium Montes Apenninus A2 Impact 1959 Nu1 1959 Sep 13 2-ya K.R. Sinus Lunicus?
Impact 1967-41A 1967 Oct 9 Lunar Orbiter 3 91.7W 14.6N Einstein Crater Nobel B1?