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Moon: Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-lun03-16100

Date

2006-11-08

This view of the moon, photographed during the Apollo 16 mission's trans-Earth coast, features Mare Fecunditatis  in the foreground with the twin craters Messier at the lower right. Nearer the horizon is Mare Nectaris with craters Goclenius and Gutenberg in between.