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Sunlight uncovers about 64 named features on this waxing mid-gibbous day. An interesting set of features to observe is the series of graben rilles in the area bounded by the craters Palmieri, de Gasparis, and Liebig to the west of Mare Humorum. One of the most interesting areas to study becomes visible this day, being the dome field on the elevated plateau unofficially named the “Marius Hills.” The domes are generally located to the northwest of the crater Marius. The selenographic colongitude on the twelfth day ranges from about 49° to 60°. We begin this day’s crater hop at the southwestern crater Segner.
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In his famous Japanese poem, Ariwara Narihira laments the loss of his lady love, whom he last saw the previous springtime on a beautiful moonlit night. The Kokinshū was compiled circa A.D. 905.
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Garfinkle, R.A. (2020). Crater-Hopping: Observing the Moon on Day 12. In: Luna Cognita. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1664-1_17
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