Caption: The near side of the Moon with the major maria (singular mare, pronounce mar-ray) and lunar craters identified.

Features:

1. This is an image Moon map with labels.

   The lunar phase is full moon or, maybe, waxing gibbous moon just before full moon.

2. The near side of the Moon is the only one we see from Earth.

3. The near side is actually the most interesting side to look at and probably for lunar geology because of the large maria: i.e., the "seas" which are actually basaltic rock from lava flows from mostly more than 3 Gyr ago (see Wikipedia: Lunar Mare; Ages). The far side of the Moon has only small maria and looks rather bland.

4. The Moon has the orientation it would have on the celestial sphere with equatorial coordinate system direction north at the top, south at the bottom, east at the left, and west at the right.

   This is the conventional orientation for modern images and maps of the Moon.

5. The Mare Tranquillitatis (i.e., Sea of Tranquility) is right of the north-south line at about mid-latitude.

   The first manned landing on the Moon occured there with Apollo 11 in 1969. The landing crew consisted of Neil Armstrong (1930--2012) and Buzz Aldrin (1930--). The third crew person Michael Collins (1930--) stayed in lunar orbit.

6. The obvious lunar crater in the south is Tycho---which is the one lunar crater most people remember.

   Tycho is the most obvious rayed crater---it has large radial rays emanating from it that are fallback from giant plumes that were ejected when the Tycho impactor impacted.

   The rays indicate that Tycho is relatively young impact crater. The rays of impact craters are erased by space weathering over gigayear time scales. Tycho is estimate to be 108 Myr old (see Wikipedia: Tycho: Age and Description).

7. The names of the large features were given long ago before 1881 anyway: see Map of the Moon, Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, 1st Edition, Leipzig (Germany) 1881, p. 4, but note that the south is at the top in that map.