Langrenus

[ lan-gree-nuhs ]

noun

1. a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.

Example Sentences

Langrenus is quite a huge crater.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great ring mountains or ringed plains, Langrenus, Vendelinus, Petavius, and Furnerius, all lying significantly along the same lunar meridian, have already been noticed.

From Project Gutenberg

On the western border of this plain, about three hundred miles from the southern end of the Mare Crisium, is the mountain ring, or circumvallation, called Langrenus, about ninety miles across and in places 10,000 feet high.

From Project Gutenberg

We were, however, too late both for that and Langrenus, another fine formation on the same meridian, for the sun had set upon them and they were in darkness, so it was no use going any farther in that direction.

From Project Gutenberg

Taking, then, an opportunity when the moon had just swung to the extreme limit of her balancing, or, to use technical terms, when she had attained her maximum libration in longitude, the observers approached the level opening to Lake Langrenus, as the narrator calls this fine walled plain, which, by the way, is fully thirty degrees of lunar longitude within the average western limit of the moon's visible hemisphere.

From Project Gutenberg