![]() Sinus Iridum is almost craterless, but hosts a set of northeasterly-oriented wrinkle ridges that are revealed at this phase. A clair-obscur effect named the Golden Handle is produced when the low-angled sunlight along the terminator brightens the eastern side of the prominent Montes Jura mountain range surrounding Sinus Iridum on the north and west. ![]() That semi-circular feature, 155 miles (249 km) in diameter, is a large impact crater that has been flooded by the same basalts that filled the much larger Mare Imbrium to its east – forming a round bay on the western edge of the mare. On Friday night, March 3, the terminator on the waxing gibbous moon will fall just west of Sinus Iridum, the Bay of Rainbows. (Image credit: Starry Night Education) (opens in new tab)
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