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  • Thumbnail for Fra Mauro map
    The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian (Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial...
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    Fra Mauro, O.S.B. Cam., (c.1400–1464) was an Italian (Venetian) cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice. He created the most detailed and accurate...
    9 KB (1,214 words) - 09:32, 1 February 2024
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    The Fra Mauro formation (or Fra Mauro Highlands) is a formation on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo...
    10 KB (1,164 words) - 21:08, 27 April 2024
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    Fra Mauro is the worn remnant of a walled lunar plain. It is part of the surrounding Fra Mauro formation, being located to the northeast of Mare Cognitum...
    9 KB (637 words) - 05:05, 19 April 2023
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    Apollo 14 (redirect from Statio fra mauro)
    program. Shepard and Mitchell made their lunar landing on February 5 in the Fra Mauro formation – originally the target of Apollo 13. During the two walks on...
    75 KB (9,099 words) - 04:33, 20 July 2024
  • Fra Mauro may refer to: Fra Mauro (crater), a crater on the Moon Fra Mauro formation, landing site of Apollo 14, named after Fra Mauro crater Fra Mauro...
    331 bytes (80 words) - 03:24, 6 July 2013
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    cartography, leading to the introduction of the Catalan Atlas and the Fra Mauro map. Marco Polo was born around 1254 in Venice, but the exact date and...
    105 KB (12,710 words) - 17:33, 23 July 2024
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    perished on the journey. In the 1450 Fra Mauro map, the Indian Ocean is depicted as connected to the Atlantic. Fra Mauro puts the following inscription by...
    38 KB (4,187 words) - 03:20, 2 August 2024
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    retain them. Apollo 13's designated landing site was near Fra Mauro crater; the Fra Mauro formation was believed to contain much material spattered by...
    117 KB (13,644 words) - 03:07, 31 July 2024
  • large island labeled Antillia. Bianco also collaborated with Fra Mauro on the Fra Mauro world map of 1459. Mainly a decoration piece, the Borgia map is...
    74 KB (8,677 words) - 00:03, 4 August 2024
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    Ordinazione Episcopale di fra Mauro Gambetti". Umbria Domani (in Italian). 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020. Fra Mauro Gambetti è Vescovo. YouTube...
    14 KB (1,073 words) - 14:07, 22 June 2024
  • early 15th century. He was one of the sources used to create the 1450 Fra Mauro map, which indicated that there was a sea route from Europe around Africa...
    15 KB (1,836 words) - 21:03, 16 July 2024
  • November 1969, Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site) Apollo 13 (H2) April 1970, Fra Mauro highlands Apollo 14 (H3) Littrow crater Apollo 15 (H4) Censorinus crater...
    27 KB (3,554 words) - 08:49, 27 July 2024
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    there are even serpents so large that they could eat an ox whole.") The Fra Mauro Map (c. 1450) shows the "Island of Dragons" (Italian: Isola de' dragoni)...
    10 KB (1,110 words) - 13:55, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mappa mundi
    mundi. The last examples of the tradition, including the massive map of Fra Mauro, may be seen as hybrids, incorporating Portolan-style coastlines into...
    14 KB (1,568 words) - 15:44, 29 June 2024
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    Biancho in Venice, 1436." Andrea Bianco also collaborated with Fra Mauro on the Fra Mauro world map of 1459. The first page, or Tavola 1, shows a diagram...
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  • Thumbnail for Cone (crater)
    Cone crater is a small crater in the Fra Mauro highlands, north of Fra Mauro crater, on the Moon. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU...
    2 KB (240 words) - 01:52, 26 January 2024
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    impact crater that is attached to the southeast rim of the walled plain Fra Mauro. It was named after British explorer William Parry. Attached to the west...
    6 KB (495 words) - 11:49, 19 May 2023
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    launched Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in April 1970, headed for the Fra Mauro formation. But two days out, a liquid oxygen tank exploded, disabling...
    150 KB (15,951 words) - 20:13, 3 August 2024
  • Brazilian footballer Mauro (footballer, born 1984), Portuguese footballer Bruno Mauro (born 1973), Angolan footballer Fra Mauro (15th century), Venetian...
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