Cook is a lunarcrater that lies in the western part of the Mare Fecunditatis, just to the southeast of the prominent Colombo crater. To the southwest is the Monge crater.
The interior of this crater has been flooded with lava, leaving only a low rim projecting above the surface. This rim is not quite circular, and has a somewhat hexagonal appearance. The low wall is worn in a few places, particularly along the northeastern rim. There is a tiny craterlet 'Cook A' on the interior floor near the southeast rim.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Cook crater.
Opportunity has been examining the rim of stadium-sized "Endurance" crater since late May. The rover team used observations of the depression to evaluate potential science benefits of entering the crater and the traversability of its inner slopes.
A feature called "Karatepe" within the impact crater known as "Endurance." Scientists believe this layered band of rock may be a good place to begin studying Endurance because it is less steep and more approachable than the rest of the crater's rocky outcrops, such as Burns Cliff shown in the banner image.
Richard Cook, project manager at JPL for the rovers, said that reaching one exposure of the older rock layers inside Endurance requires driving only about 5 to 7 meters (16 to 23 feet) into the 130-meter-diameter (140-yard-diameter) crater.
Cook had made his celebrated voyages less than twenty years before, and the accounts of them were then before the world; but even Cook left a great deal to be ascertained, more especially in the way of details.
The Crater is in many ways an indictment of the American society and government of Cooper's time, embodying his frustrations and fears about the increasing power of popular opinion, constitutional reform, and the press in the wake of the Jacksonian egalitarianism he had generally supported.
Cooper himself suggests that Cook had only laid the groundwork for Western ways of knowing the Pacific, leaving others—like Cooper himself, undoubtedly—to fill in what was absent "in the way of details" and to "turn his labors to account" (37-8).
Feeds |
Contact