Gardner (crater)
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Gardner is a small lunar impact crater in the northeast part of the Moon. It was named after an American physicist Irvine Clifton Gardner in 1976. It lies due east of the crater Vitruvius, in a sectio
Apollo 17 Mapping Camera image
Oblique view from Apollo 15
The Gardner Megadome, from Apollo 17
Full Moon 2010
Mare Tranquillitatis
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Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. It contains Tranquility Base, the first location on another celestial body to be visited by humans.
Gardner (crater)
…named after an American physicist Irvine Clifton Gardner in 1976. It lies due east of the crater Vitruvius, in a section of rough terrain north of the Mare Tranquillitatis. Gardner was previously designated Vitruvius A before being given its present name by the IAU. To the northeast of Gardner is the larger crater Maraldi…
The Sea of Tranquility of the Moon
The Apollo 11 landing site at center, facing west, with the 22-kilometer-wide Maskelyne crater in right foreground
The Moon with Mare Tranquillitatis highlighted and the first crewed lunar landing marked
Three views of Mare Tranquillitatis, taken by the mapping camera of the 1972 Apollo 17 mission