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Select a lacus 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).


 Excellentiae

 Gaudi

 Hiemalis

 Lenitatis

 Mortis

 Somniorum



A lacus (ENG: lake) is a lunar mare of rather small dimension (up to about 200 km diameter ) or flat circular feature with shallow rim and covered with mare-like material .

(At right: Lacus Somniorom, taken from lunar orbit; © NASA)