Moon: Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris
author: Nasa/Novapix
reference: a-lun03-16101
Image Size 300 DPI: 35 * 36 cm
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.