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The pit is located at 8.3355°N, 33.222°E on the moon's surface. Radar imaging indicated that the pit's funnel is roughly 20 meters deep, while the inner pit has a depth of approximately 105 meters. The diameter of the pit's funnel was between 140 and 146 meters long while the diameter of the inner pit is 88–100 meters long.
This is a list of named lunar craters. The large majority of these features are impact craters . The crater nomenclature is governed by the International Astronomical Union , and this listing only includes features that are officially recognized by that scientific society.
[44] [47] In 2023–2024, radar imaging of the Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was analyzed and determined to have been formed by the collapse of a lava tube that resulted in the formation of a cave conduit at least tens of meters long, proving the existence of lunar caves. [48]
The pit was actually found not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon to become the first ever humans on its surface, some 55 years ago. They spent less than a day on the ...
Pit craters are often found in a series of aligned or offset chains and in these cases, the features is called a pit crater chain. Pit crater chains are distinguished from catenae or crater chains by their origin. When adjoining walls between pits in a pit crater chain collapse, they become troughs. In these cases, the craters may merge into a ...
The huge indent, called the 'imbrue basin,' stretches across 750 miles.
Oblique view from Apollo 16 Lunar Orbiter 4 image showing surroundings. Compton is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the east of the Mare Humboldtianum, and southwest of the walled plain Schwarzschild. To the southeast of Compton is the heavily eroded crater Swann.
A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient asteroid impact crater. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and ...