Weekend promises a stellar shot of the moonBust out your scopes for this one.(Credit:Starry Night Software)How well do you know the geography of the moon? This weekend brings a great chance for you to brush up on your lunar knowledge.Starry Night Education points out that when the moon rises each night this weekend, we Earthlings can view a great angle of these jumbo lunar craters: Plato, Archimedes, Copernicus, Ptolemaeus, and Clavius.Related storiesNext up for 3D printing: a moonbase?NASA sends Mona Lisa to the moon with lasersThe diameters of these impact craters simply astound the mind: the smallest listed here, Copernicus, ranges at 58 miles across, while Clavius stretches out to an impressive 140 miles in diameter. Can you imagine the meteor that caused such a formation? To top off the poe power leveling spectacle, you may also see the Rupes Recta (Straight Wall), an epic cliff to the south that stands 68 miles long and nearly a thousand feet high.The educational group indicates that the absolutely best views of the moon (which rises at 9 p.m.) should occur when it sets to the south, mostly toward the earliest morning hours before sunrise.(Via Space.com)
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