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VAN DER WAALS
Farside Directory - Ridge Section 148


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                                    Left.  Ridge Section 148; Right: Cropped 1200 dpi USGS color chart of Section 148 
                                          
Larger expanded version of color chart above
USGS Charts 4050S-100120
Lunascan Composite of USGS Charts showing region left of Van Der Waals
USGS Color Chart over Sections 148 and 149
Lunscan Project composite of Sections 138, 139, 148 & 149
LAC 117 WAC in pdf file


BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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Ridge Section 148 is entitled Van der Waals, named after a 104 km-wide crater on the lunar Far Side. It is a heavily eroded feature with an irregular outer rim. The edge is lowest along the southern side where it is little more than a circular crest along the ground. It is more developed along the northern side, but the rim is notched and rugged. The satellite crater Van der Waals W is attached to the exterior of the northeast, and Van der Waals H intrudes into the rim along the southeast. The interior floor is relatively even and featureless, with only a few tiny craterlets to mark the surface. Nearby craters of note include Clark to the north, Carver to the east, and Pikel'ner to the southeast. Lebdev, Lamb and Parkhurts are also in the frame but can't be delineated due to the extreme curvature of the lunar limb near Mare Australe. However the cropped-to-fit colored USGS chart does show Lamb, but it appears to be out-of-frame in our section.  It is very difficult to point these out on the images above. The best way to view them is by clicking on the LRO WAC 117 link above. About two crater diameters to the west-southwest is Lebedev, on the bottom left of that chart. (Credit: Some of the information used in the section feature descriptions was obtained from Wikipedia.org. Section 148 and this directory was created by Fran Ridge and Ned Haskin of The Lunascan Project).

             USEFUL TOOLS:

Lunar Farside Chart [300 dpi] (NASA/LPI)
Farside Image Composite [1600 dpi] (NASA/LRO)
Farside-contour-map-gray2800.jpg
lunascan.com/lunascan/LAC_maps.htm (Bob Garfinkle) *
planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Moon1to1MAtlas

CRATERS:
Lamb, 108 km
Lebdev, 102 km
Parkhurst, 96 km
Van der waals, 104 km

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar & Planetary Institute:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ (Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/ (Photo Gallery)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?lamb%7C0
lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?van%20der%20waals%7C0

APOLLO IMAGES:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ (Apollo Image Atlas)
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=lamb&sort=
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=van+der+waals&sort=


CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
Possible.

LUNAR RECONNAISANCE ORBITER IMAGES:
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/

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RESEARCH UPDATES:
the-moon.wikispaces.com/Van+der+Waals