The formation, as well as Fra Mauro crater, take their names from a 15th-century Italian monk and mapmaker of the same name.
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It is named after the 80-kilometer-diameter crater Fra Mauro, located within it.
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Analysis of Apollo 14 samples suggests that there are five major geologic constituents present in the immediate landing area: regolith breccias, fragmental breccias, igneous lithologies, granulitic lithologies, and impact-melt lithologies.
Fra Angelico | Mauro Bolognini | formation | Mauro Pawlowski | Fra Mauro | Command (military formation) | Mauro Picotto | Elliot Formation | Mauro Giuliani | Lance Formation | Crato Formation | Chinle Formation | Two Medicine Formation | Tamayama Formation | Missing Man Formation (band) | Missing Man Formation | Mauro Mueller | Mauro Malavasi | Mauro Icardi | Mauro Forghieri | Marcellus Formation | Kirkwood Formation | Gettysburg Formation | Garry Mauro | Clarens Formation | Whitby Mudstone Formation | Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation | Santana Formation | Phalanx formation | phalanx formation |