lunar 100 1-25

lunar 100 table 1 to 25

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l	image	feature name	significance	lat. (°)	long. (°)	diam. (km)	date imaged
1		moon	large satellite	—	—	3,476	6/20/2005
2		earthshine	twice reflected sunlight	—	—	—	5/9/2005
3		mare/highland dichotomy	two materials with distinct compositions	—	—	—
4		apennines	imbrium basin rim	18.9n	3.7w	70
5		copernicus	archetypal large complex crater	9.7n	20.1w	93	3/19/2005
6		tycho	large rayed crater with impact melts	43.4s	11.1w	85
7		altai scarp	nectaris basin rim	24.3s	22.6e	425
8		theophilus, cyrillus, catharina	crater sequence illustrating stages of degradation	13.2s	24.0e	—
9		clavius	lacks basin features in spite of its size	58.8s	14.1w	225
10		mare crisium	mare contained in large circular basin	18.0n	59.0e	540
11		aristarchus	very bright crater with dark bands on its walls	23.7n	47.4w	40
12		proclus	oblique-impact rays	16.1n	46.8e	28
13		gassendi	floor-fractured crater	17.6s	40.1w	101
14		sinus iridum	very large crater with missing rim	45.0n	32.0w	260
15		straight wall	best example of a lunar fault	21.8s	7.8w	110
16		petavius	crater with domed & fractured floor	25.1s	60.4e	177
17		schröter's valley	giant sinuous rille	26.2n	50.8w	168
18		mare serenitatis dark edges	distinct mare areas with different compositions	17.8n	23.0e	n/a
19		alpine valley	lunar graben	49.0n	3.0e	165
20		posidonius	floor-fractured crater	31.8n	29.9e	95
21		fracastorius	crater with subsided & fractured floor	21.5s	33.2e	124
22		aristarchus plateau	mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics	26.0n	51.0w	150
23		pico	isolated imbrium basin-ring fragment	45.7n	8.9w	25
24		hyginus rille	rille containing rimless collapse pits	7.4n	7.8e	220
25		messier & messier a	oblique ricochet-impact pair [top of page]	1.9s	47.6e	11

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