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Moon: Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-lun03-16101

Date

2008-06-16

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 right. Bottom is Langrenus crater. Nearer the horizon is Mare Nectaris with craters Goclenius and Gutenberg in between.