BAY OF SUCCESS
| SINUS SUCCESSUS, Latin for the Bay of Success. Located along the eastern edge of the Sea of Fertility. This is a great gift for the person who is truly excelling in life! Click the more information tab for a detailed description of this location. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A BAY OF SUCCESS CLAIM for just 29.99! |
Bay of Success Location Description
Sinus Successus, Latin for the Bay of Success, is a small lunar bay located along the eastern side of the near side Moon. The Sea of Fertility (Mare Fecunditatis) is located to the south and the Foaming Sea (Mare Spumans) is located to the northeast of this bay. Like lunar Mare, from the Latin word Maria which means Seas, lunar bays were created by ancient lava flows and derived their names because they resembled oceanic bays here on Earth. These types of formations appear as dark areas on the lunar surface when viewed from Earth and ancient historians believed these darker areas were actually liquid oceans, hence the Latin names which reference these features as bodies of water. The volcanic activity that flooded this bay with lava, as well as the Lunar Sea in Mare Fecunditatis to its south, occurred between 3.2 to 3.8 billion years ago while the Moon was still volcanically active.
The Soviet Space program landed 3 probes near the Bay of Success for the purpose of returning lunar samples back to Earth. The first was Luna 16 (the first successful robotic lunar sample returned to Earth), which landed near Webb Crater and returned a small sample of Lunar basalt material to Earth on September 24, 1970. Luna 18 was sent to the highlands northwest of the Bay of Success and crashed during its landing attempt on September 11, 1971. Luna 20 was sent to the Apollonius Highlands, near the location of the failed Luna 18 mission, and made a successful landing on the lunar surface February 21, 1972. Luna 20 was able to collect a small sample of lunar soil and returned it to Earth on February 25, 1972.
Two noteworthy craters near the Bay of Success are Condon Crater (formerly known as Webb R) and Webb Crater. Condon Crater was named after Edward Uhler Condon (1902 to 1974), an American nuclear physicist and pioneer in early quantum mechanics. Webb Crater was named after Thomas William Webb (1807 to 1885), a British astronomer who wrote an astronomical observation guide.
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