Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-jbqgn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-05T00:14:22.521Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

2b - Mare Crisium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2012

Get access

Summary

Picard 14.6°N, 54.7°E

Peirce 18.3°N, 53.5°E

Picard and Pierce, with diameters of 22 km and 18 km, respectively, are the only notable craters on the floor of Mare Crisium. Both exhibit sharply defined crater walls and are certainly relatively young when compared with the craters in the southern highlands. Picard is one of the few double-walled craters, that may be observed with small telescopes.

O'Neill's Bridge 15.2°N, 49.2°E

O'Neill's Bridge is not an official lunar designation, but a sort of nickname, first introduced by the amateur John O'Neill in 1953. The supposed bridge is visible shortly after Full Moon, when the terminator reaches the western edge of Mare Crisium. When seeing conditions are relatively poor (or the telescope's aperture is too small), the object resembles a bridge, joining the tips of the capes Promontorium Lavinium and Promontorium Olivium. (Neither designation is used officially nowadays.) If the seeing conditions are good and the instrument large enough, two small, eroded crater pits are revealed at the site. O'Neill's Bridge lies directly southeast of the crater Proclus.

Lick 12.4°N, 54.7°E

Yerkes 4.6°N, 51.7°E

Two, structurally almost identical, lava-flooded craters lie southeast and east of O'Neill's Bridge. Lick has a diameter of 31 km, and Yerkes is somewhat larger at 36 km. North of it lies Yerkes E (10 km), which is linked to Yerkes by a ridge.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×