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| − | <em>Image by [mailto:luccat@sfr.fr Luc Cathala], Mazan, France.</em><br /> | + | <em>Image by [mailto:luccat@sfr.fr" rel="nofollow Luc Cathala], Mazan, France.</em><br /> |
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| − | This has to be one of the coolest craters on the Moon - [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Alphonsus Alphonsus]. It has everything, rilles, peaks, dark halo craters, ridges, a high wall, and it is a floor fractured crater; even legends about red glows and gas emissions. Like the real [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonzie Fonzie] it is just "hey". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_9 Ranger 9] crash landed there to get images in 1965 and it really should have had an Apollo mission there if they had continued to Apollo 20. Without doubt, one of the coolest wonders of the Moon.<br /> | + | This has to be one of the coolest craters on the Moon - [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Alphonsus Alphonsus]. It has everything, rilles, peaks, dark halo craters, ridges, a high wall, and it is a floor fractured crater; even legends about red glows and gas emissions. Like the real [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonzie" rel="nofollow Fonzie] it is just "hey". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_9" rel="nofollow Ranger 9] crash landed there to get images in 1965 and it really should have had an Apollo mission there if they had continued to Apollo 20. Without doubt, one of the coolest wonders of the Moon.<br /> |
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| − | <em>[mailto:mauricejscollins@hotmail.com Maurice Collins]</em><br /> | + | <em>[mailto:mauricejscollins@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow Maurice Collins]</em><br /> |
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Revision as of 23:08, 4 January 2015
The Fonz of Craters
Image by " rel="nofollow Luc Cathala, Mazan, France.
Originally published on April 8, 2014.
This has to be one of the coolest craters on the Moon - Alphonsus. It has everything, rilles, peaks, dark halo craters, ridges, a high wall, and it is a floor fractured crater; even legends about red glows and gas emissions. Like the real " rel="nofollow Fonzie it is just "hey". " rel="nofollow Ranger 9 crash landed there to get images in 1965 and it really should have had an Apollo mission there if they had continued to Apollo 20. Without doubt, one of the coolest wonders of the Moon.
" rel="nofollow Maurice Collins
Technical Details
Alphonsus 04/18/13 at 18:58 GMT, taken with a newtonian 625 mm 2739 mm focal length equatorial platform on all amateur-built (excluding mirrors) with 3x Barlow, IR filter, Flea3 camera, during moderate turbulence.
//21st Century Atlas chart 16.
