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- The crew of Apollo 8 (mankind's first manned spaceflight mission to orbit the moon) made south-looking oblique close up photographs of Behaim and its pronounced central peak. One of those photographs is AS8-13-2269. In this photograph, nearby Ansgarius is visible at the lower part of the frame.
Research: Danny Caes
HiRes scan of this photograph: David Woods and Frank O'Brien (Apollo 8 Flight Journal)
(IAU Directions) BEHAIM.--A great ring-plain, 65 miles in diameter, S. of Ansgarius, and connected with it by ridges. It has lofty walls and a central mountain.
Named for Martin Behaim (October 6, 1459 – July 29, 1507), a German navigator and cartographer. On a visit to his native city in 1492, he constructed his famous terrestrial globe, called "the erdapfel" and still preserved at the Nuremberg National Museum.
According to Whitaker (p. 219), this name was introduced by Mädler.
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LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images- The crew of Apollo 8 (mankind's first manned spaceflight mission to orbit the moon) made south-looking oblique close up photographs of Behaim and its pronounced central peak. One of those photographs is AS8-13-2269. In this photograph, nearby Ansgarius is visible at the lower part of the frame.
Research: Danny Caes
HiRes scan of this photograph: David Woods and Frank O'Brien (Apollo 8 Flight Journal)
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(IAU Directions) BEHAIM.--A great ring-plain, 65 miles in diameter, S. of Ansgarius, and connected with it by ridges. It has lofty walls and a central mountain.Description: Wikipedia
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