Lacus Gaudii (

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

''gaudiī'', "Lake of Joy") is a small

lunar mare The lunar maria (; singular: mare ) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient asteroid impacts on the far side on the Moon that triggered volcanic activity on the opposite (near) side. They were dubbed , Latin for 'seas' ...

in the

Terra Nivium Terra Nivium (Latin for "Land of Snows") is a roughly triangular highland region on the Moon. In his ''Almagestum novum'', the notable selenographer Giovanni Riccioli named the various highland regions terrae. However, unlike his naming scheme for ...

region of the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

.Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, Lunar and Planetary Institut
Annotated Lunar Orbiter 4 Image 097 h2
based on Bowker and Hughes (NASA SP-206) It is located at 16.3° N, 12.3° E and is 89 km in diameter.

References

External links

Lacus Gaudii at The Moon Wiki
* Gaudii {{Moon-stub