Selenography
The selenography is the study of the surface and the relief of the the Moon , the word being derived from the name of the Greek goddess Séléné , personifying the Moon, and of the Suffixe - C-W communication (Francization of the Greek word graphos meaning writing ). Historically, the principal occupation of the selenographists were to chart the visible Face of the Moon and to name the " of them; mers" ( Maria ), craters, mountains, etc… This task was finished and made obsolete by the irruption of satellite images high-resolution of the hidden visible face and of the Moon, it since the beginning of the space era since the years 1950 (example: probe Clementine). Today, selenography is regarded as a under-discipline of the Sélénologie or " science of Lune".
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