Plato in Fiction
The crater Plato is the location of an observatory in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Earthlight (1955) and of Moonbase Alpha in the science-fiction TV series Space: 1999.
Crater Plato is the home crater of Matthew Looney and Maria Looney, protagonists of the Looney series of children's books set on the Moon, written by Jerome Beatty.
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