Lacus Aestatis

Lacus Aestatis
Lunar Orbiter 4 image
Coordinates	15°00′S 69°00′W / 15.0°S 69.0°W / -15.0; -69.0Coordinates: 15°00′S 69°00′W / 15.0°S 69.0°W / -15.0; -69.0
Diameter	90 km
Eponym	Summer Lake

Lacus Aestatis (latin for "Summer Lake") consists of two relatively small areas of lunar mare located near the western limb of the Moon. The selenograpic coordinates of this feature are 15.0° S, 69.0° W, and it lies within a diameter of 90 km. The lake has a combined surface area in the order of 1,000 km².

The northwestern part of this feature is located to the east-southeast of the crater Rocca, and is contained within the rim of the satellite crater Rocca A. The other part lies to the southeast of the first, and forms an elongated, irregular patch that extends generally in a north-south direction. The southern tip lies about one crater diameter to the northwest of the flooded crater Crüger.

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NASA lunar Atlas

Lunar maria

Oceanus	Procellarum

Mare	Anguis Australe Cognitum Crisium Fecunditatis Frigoris Humboldtianum Humorum Imbrium Ingenii Insularum Marginis Moscoviense Nectaris Nubium Orientale Serenitatis Smythii Spumans Tranquillitatis Undarum Vaporum

Lacus	Aestatis Autumni Bonitatis Doloris Excellentiae Felicitatis Gaudii Hiemalis Lenitatis Luxuriae Mortis Oblivionis Odii Perseverantiae Solitudinis Somniorum Spei Temporis Timoris Veris

Sinus	Aestuum Amoris Asperitatis Concordiae Fidei Honoris Iridum Lunicus Medii Roris Successus

Paludes	Epidemiarum Putredinis Somni

List of maria on the Moon

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