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Select a dome by clicking on the name. Move the mouse over the full scale image of the larger region to show names of prominent surface features and additional data: depth from rim to crater floor and diameter, taken from the Times Atlas of the Moon (Ed. H.A.G. Lewis, Times Newspapers Ltd., 1969; charts available online at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/) and from Virtual Moon Atlas (Christian Legrand & Patrick Chevalley).


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A dome is a cone-shaped lunar hill, mostly topped with a small crater. Typically about 10 km in diameter and rising a few hundred meter above the mare floor, it is thought to be related to shield volcanoes.

(At right: dome Milichius , taken from lunar orbit; © NASA )