What is the Galileo Spacecraft?
The Galileo Crater and Galilaei Crater is a small crater on the front of the Moon, located in the western part of the Storm Ocean. Named after Italian physicist, engineer, astronomer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), it was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1935. Originally, the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Battista Riccioli applied Galileo's name to another lunar surface feature in his lunar map of 1651, now called Rainer Gamma. Later, the German astronomer John Heinrich von Madler transferred the Galileo name to the current Galileo crater in a monthly chart jointly published with William Beale from 1834 to 1836.
Galileo Crater
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- Galileo Crater, Galilaei Crater is
- The Galileo crater is adjacent to the Seleuc crater in the northwest, the Schiaparelli crater in the northwest, the Marius crater in the east, the Rinal crater in the southeast, and the Cavalieri crater. Located southwest of it. The crater winds west and northwest of Galileo Moon Creek, about 89 kilometers long; to the southeast lies a high-rise called Rainer Gamma
- By convention, the satellite pit closest to the Galileo crater is lettered next to the center point of the crater on the moon map.
| Galileo | latitude | longitude | diameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 11.7 ° N | 62.9 ° W | 11 kilometers |
| B | 11.4 ° N | 67.6 ° W | 15 km |
| D | 8.7 ° N | 62.7 ° W | 1 km |
| E | 14.0 ° N | 61.8 ° W | 7 km |
| F | 12.3 ° N | 66.2 ° W | 3 kilometers |
| G | 12.7 ° N | 67.1 ° W | 1 km |
| H | 11.5 ° N | 68.7 ° W | 7 km |
| J | 13.0 ° N | 61.9 ° W | 4 kilometers |
| K | 13.0 ° N | 62.7 ° W | 3 kilometers |
| L | 13.2 ° N | 58.5 ° W | 3 kilometers |
| M | 13.3 ° N | 56.8 ° W | 3 kilometers |
| S | 15.4 ° N | 64.7 ° W | 2 kilometers |
| T | 16.2 ° N | 61.4 ° W | 2 kilometers |
| V | 17.1 ° N | 60.3 ° W | 3 kilometers |
| W | 17.8 ° N | 60.5 ° W | 4 kilometers |
- On February 3, 1966, the Soviet unmanned space probe Lunar 9 landed about 40 kilometers south of Galileo Crater, with coordinates of 7.13 ° north latitude and 64.37 ° west longitude. It was the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, an area later known as the Landing Plain.