Publisher's Synopsis
How many craters on the farside of the Moon would you know offhand - five, ten to a few more? There are several hundred, officially-named craters on the side, and yet we only get to hear of a few of them every now and then, which in most cases are those we've already read about before. In Craters of the Far Side Moon you will have access to some 588 different craters found on the less-explored side. Imaged by cameras onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter currently orbiting the Moon, each crater includes official latitude and longitude coordinates as laid down by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), along with location markers of over 1,700 sub-related craters. An additional 588 images concerning geology, feature, and different views related to each crater are also supplied, and in most cases a brief description accompanies those images shown. Listed images of some 25 officially-named features (catenae, rimae, vallis and montes etc., ) are also included, while throughout the book, location of some of the 30 basins or so found on the farside are given. Craters of the Far Side Moon will serve as an all-inclusive reference for the reader, and an introduction to some of the less-seen craters and features on the Moon. We generally know about craters and features on only one side of our Moon (the Near Side), so time to explore the other side today. This book concludes the trilogy of books about craters and features found on the Moon (for more, see Craters of the Near Side Moon and Features of the Near Side Moon (Second Edition)) here on Amazon.
