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KEPLER
Directory - Section 30


BRIEF DESCRIPTION
The dark background of Mare Insularum contrasts with bright ray systems from two main centers: the crater Copernicus (in the east) and, especially, the crater Kepler which dominates this area. Perhaps the best-known group of lunar domes is that situated north of the crater Hortensius. Other domes that can be seen through even a quite small telescope lie to the west of the crater Milichius and to the south of the crater T. Mayer.Refer to your Anton Rukl atlas of the Moon, page 87.

wikispaces.com/R%C3%BCkl+30
Rukl zone map page. (Click on above link and add "+"  then the rukl chart #)

EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:
Since many EBTI's are not kept long on the internet is best to use Google for these images.
Image - Kepler and Procellarum (Naoyuk Kurita)
Image - Kepler DMK

CRATERS IN THIS SECTION:
Encke, 29 km
Hortensius, 14.6 km
Insularum, Mare
Kepler, 32 km  
Kunowsky, 18 km
Milichius, 13 km
Milichius, Pi
Milichius, Rima

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar Orbiter Database
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?%7C0 (Search)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Kepler%7C0 (Kepler)
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hires/lo3_m162.gif (Kepler)

APOLLO IMAGES:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature= (Search)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Kepler (Kepler)
Landing Sites Map

ESA's SMART 1
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39467

LRO Images:
lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/683-Debris-Flows-in-Kepler-Crater.html (LROC, Debris flows in Kepler)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101109-kepler.html (LROC, Kepler crater ejecta)
lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/298-Keplers-Rim.html (LROC, Kepler's rim)
nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101112-peak.html (LROC, Kepler's central peak)

YOU TUBE VIDEOS:
None

LUNAR FLYOVERS:
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Research Updates:
Kepler Image by Apollo 12 crew, AS12-52-7745 (LPOD)
Rayless Crater - (LPOD Lunar Photo of the day)
The Moon: Lunar Orbiter 3 (NASA)Kepler (Lunascan)
AS14-78-10378(H) - Oceanus Procellarum near Kunowsky (AOTM, SP-362)
Around Procellarum (Naoyuki Kurita)
lunascan/images/hortensius_fig3_.jpg (GLR, Dome near Hortensus)
sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39467 (ESA, Crater Kepler)

ANOMALIES
LAC-024: (Source: 111,50) Crater Kepler comes under suspicion. "Astronomer Dr. Aniceto Lugo...in September (5th, 1954),...he had observed flashes of light inside crater Kepler on the moon."
LAC-054: (Source: EA,140A) Photo of three domes in the center of the crater Kepler.

 

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