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Vogel is a small lunar impact crater located to the southeast of Albategnius. It was named after the German astronomer Hermann Carl Vogel. [1] It is the smallest member of a trio of craters that increase in size from north to south, consisting of Vogel, Argelander and Airy. To the west is the remnant of the crater Parrot.
The smallest craters found have been microscopic in size, found in rocks returned to Earth from the Moon. The largest crater called such is about 290 km (180 mi) across in diameter, located near the lunar south pole .
The following reference sites were also used during the assembly of the crater information. Astronomica Langrenus — Italian Lunar Web Site; Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature; Moon map. List of craters on the Moon; Lunar Atlases at the Lunar & Planetary Institute Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon; Lunar Nomenclature
Ina is a peculiar small depression ("crater" in IAU nomenclature) on the Moon, in Lacus Felicitatis. It is D-shaped , 2.9 km × 1.9 km wide and 64 m deep (from the deepest point of the bottom to the highest point of the rim).
The crater was named after Soviet geophysicist and geodesist Leonid I. Mandelʹshtam by the IAU in 1970. [1] Mandelʹshtam was known as Crater 220 prior to naming. [2] The small crater Mandelʹshtam F to the east has a small ray system with several faint, streaky rays overlaying the floor of Mandelʹshtam.
Little West is a small crater (30-meter diameter) in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, east of the Apollo 11 landing site known as Tranquility Base.. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle approximately 60 meters west of Little West Crater on July 20, 1969.
Petit is a small, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that is located on the northwestern edge of the Mare Spumans. The crater has a prominent ray system. The name is appropriate, since petite means small in French. But it was actually named in honor of Alexis Thérèse Petit, a French physicist.
The bottom of a small unnamed crater within Antoniadi crater was measured by the laser altimeter (LALT) instrument on board the Japanese Selenological and Engineering Explorer satellite to be the lowest point on the moon, [1] at Lunar latitude 70.43° S, longitude 187.42° E. [3] The point is 9.178 km below the average lunar geoid.