As the night sky was almost cloudless and reasonable clear, I took a photo of the waxing crescent Moon last night.
The crescent clearly shows Mare Crisium AKA The Sea of Crisis at the upper edge. Anyone who follows space news will know that the Sea of Crisis is the landing site for the commercial lunar lander, Blue Ghost.
Another point of interest is that Mare Crisium was used as the location for Arthur C. Clarke's 1948 short story, The Sentinel, one of Clarke's stories used as inspiration for the film , 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the story, a mysterious alien structure is discovered in the mountains surrounding the 'sea'.
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