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information about ZUPUS

Answer 1

Zupus is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located on a southwestern reach of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the northwest of Mare Humorum. Wikipedia

Diameter: 38,000 m

Colongitude: 52

Answer 2

Zupus is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located on a southwestern reach of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the northwest of Mare Humorum. 

Diameter: 38,000 m

The eastern part of Zupus's floor shows some sort of layered appearance. This appearance is only detectable on the WAC - Big Shadows representation in the online LROC Quickmap.

Giovanni Battista Zupi (Zupus) (circa 1590–1650) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. In 1639, Giovanni was the first person to discover that the planet Mercury had orbital phases, just like the Moon and Venus. His observations demonstrated that the planet orbited around the Sun. This occurred just 30 years after Galileo's first telescope design, and Giovanni's was only slightly more powerful.

Zupus is one of Giovanni Baptista Riccioli's names, see page 215 of Ewen A. Whitaker's book Mapping and Naming the Moon (Appendix G).

The dark spot which was called Zupus by Riccioli might have been the southern part of Michel Florent Van Langren's Flumen S. Augustini, this according to Van Langren's map on page 41 of Ewen A. Whitaker's book Mapping and Naming the Moon. The Strasbourg forgery of Van Langren's map (page 43) also shows the name Flumen S. Augustini. See also page 197 (Appendix D: Van Langren's nomenclature).-



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