Elvey

Elvey

Lat: 8.8°N, Long: 100.5°W, Diam: 74 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

Left: Clementine view (note the northern part of the impressive ray system of nearby Pierazzo!).
Middle: Annotated Lunar Orbiter view -- both images from Map-A-Planet.
Right: Color-coded topography LAC 72 image from USGS Digital Atlas.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

(LAC zone 72A3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Rather unimpressive crater (read: some sort of featureless depression) located north of the pronounced bowl-shaped crater Pierazzo with its very beautiful ray-system. Part of Pierazzo's ray-system is running over the floor of Elvey. - DannyCaes Aug 15, 2015
 
 

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Elvey

Additional Information

Nomenclature

Christian Thomas; American astronomer, geophysicist (1899-1970).
 
 

Lettered Craters

Excerpt from the USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon.

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Bibliography

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