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PLATO
Directory - Section 03


BRIEF DESCRIPTION
The northern region of the Moon and the western part of Mare Frigoris. The lower part of the section is occupied by the walled plain Plato which has a very dark floor. Mare Frigoris and Mare Imbrium are separated by a narrow "continental strip".  Refer to your Antonin Rukl atlas chart of the Moon, page 33.

wikispaces.com/R%C3%BCkl+3
Rukl section 3

EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES: 
Image - Plato, emerging  from the terminator (Ferreira)
http://www.google.com/search?q=plato,crater&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0jEyUZuZA4rE0QHhiYHQAw&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=675 (Googled images)

CRATERS IN THIS SECTION:
Anaximenes, 80 km
Brianchon, 145 km
Fontenelle, 38 km
Frigorus, Mare
Maupertuis, Rimae
Mouchez, 82 km
Pascal, 106 km
Philolaus, 71 km
Plato, 101 km
Poncelet, 69 km
Sylvester, 58 km

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar Orbiter Database
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?plato%7C0 (Plato, or add any crater above).

APOLLO IMAGES:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=
Landing Sites Map
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=apollo&sort= (Plato, or add any crater)

CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
No longer available.

SMART-1 SPACECRAFT (European Space Agency) Credits: ESA/Space-X, Space Exploration Institute
No longer available.

LRO Images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photos_of_the_Moon_by_Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter
See reprt belw.

LUNAR FLYOVERS:
youtube.com/watch?v=Xio7pejnLB8&list=PL56882C1D4A379FC7 (Plato, Kaguya)

Research Updates:
lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/174-Plato-Crater-Constellation-Region-of-Interest.html (Plato, crater of interest, by LRO)
Plato (Lunascan)
Madler's Square Under Investigation (Lunascan)
Domes - (Jon Floyd, VGL)

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