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Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-26-2017 09:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Please use this topic to discuss the development of Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander.

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posted 12-08-2022 01:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Headshot   Click Here to Email Headshot     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is the target landing area for the Peregrine lunar lander still Lacus Mortis, or has it been changed?

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posted 12-09-2022 10:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Headshot   Click Here to Email Headshot     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As of Dec. 6th, apparently the Gruithuisen Domes region is also under consideration.

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posted 02-03-2023 09:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
On Thursday (Feb. 2), NASA confirmed the new target landing site as a mare outside of the Gruithuisen Domes on the northeast border of Oceanus Procellarum, or Ocean of Storms.

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It seems to me that NASA has a pretty plastic interpretation of the Ocean of Storms. Apollo 12 landed on the Ocean of Storms roughly SSW of Copernicus in an area more or less adjoining Mare Cognitum. Looking at a map it appears the Gruithuisen Domes are more or less at the Western border of Mare Imbrium.

I'm just guessing here, but maybe the Ocean of Storms was created by a large precursor asteroid/comet that hit the Moon, and then the subsidiary Mares, such as Imbrium, were created by later impacting asteroids/comets that created their own compression outer ridges that divided the Ocean of Storms into assorted Mares.

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