MARE HUMORUM

This is an orginial acrylic painting showing the Mare Humorum which is latin for 'Sea of Moisture'. It is a smaller, circular mare - the impact basin is about 400km across, and is located on the lunar nearside. The most prominet crater is located on the norther edge - 'Gassendi' which was considered a possible landing site for Apollo 17. The paintings shows the 'graben-like' features on the easter and western edge which are trench-like erosional structures which form as the crust is deformed. In the basin you can see the 'wrinkle ridges' which are believed to be caused by thermo-mechanical deformation of the mare basalts.