Mare Crisium

We have found the remnants of two huge domes doming into Mare on the Moon.

One is Mare Crisium, which is in the upper right-hand corner of the Moon.

Go to an astronomy textbook and look at Mare Crisium, and one of the first things you'll notice is it has a hexagonal configuration.

That is not an accident.

That is a reflection of the artificial glass multi-layered dome that we have now found arching over Crisium, photographed and commented upon, we found in Apollo transcripts, by the astronauts themselves.

What I was referring there was Mare Imbrium appears to be the only true lava upwelling that exists on the moon.

The papers that I've been going through complain that that even on close inspection the signatures of lava lakes that should be on the floors of the other maria are missing they're not there and these authors are very perplexed and puzzled and kind of bewildered why the only clear flows of lava they can find are in an embryum and they are coming up from an upwelling vent at 19.5 so i was using that as a affirmation that our physics our geophysics of how planetary energy upwells at these specific latitudes, in fact, is working on the Moon, which we found by accident in going through these papers.

The Mare Crisium dome, which appears to be in much better shape than the Sinus Medi dome, if I can use those terms, has a 20 mile high tower, which we found on an Apollo 16 frame.

Why does it matter? Because nobody knows precisely how often small rocks hit the Moon, and if you're going to put a habitat on the surface for months, that rate is a design number.

Regular listeners will remember the new crater in the Crisium region from episode one ninety-six, two hundred and twenty meters wide, a once-in-a-century event.

These flashes are the other end of the same distribution, tiny, frequent, and, until now, poorly counted.

There's a lovely listener tie-in, too.

It was sent to the moon through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS.

Blue Ghost actually touched down in Mare Crisium, a vast lava plain on the moon's near side, becoming the first fully successful commercial moon landing.

And once it was there, PlanetVac got to work, collecting lunar regolith with a puff of gas.

Next week, its descendant is going to launch for Phobos.

He was, it is true, enabled to confirm some discoveries of former observers and to confute those of others.

The existence of volcanoes discovered by his father and by Schroeter of Berlin and the changes observed by the latter in the volcano in the Mare Crisium or Lucid Lake were corroborated and illustrated as was also the prevalence of far more extensive volcanic phenomenon.

The disproportionate height attributed to the lunar mountains was corrected from careful ad measurement, whilst the celebrated conical hills encircling valleys of vast diameter and surrounding the lofty central hills were distinctly perceived.

The formation which Professor Fraunhofer uncharitably conjectured to be a lunar fortification, he ascertained to be a tabular buttress of a remarkable pyramidical mountain.