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The interior floor is fairly flat in places, with several craters marking the surface in the southern half. There is also a small crater, Gauss B, lying along the interior of the eastern rim, with the smaller Gauss A lying across the rim just to the northeast of Gauss B. The floor of Gauss is also
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545:The geologic history of the Moon
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788:(6th revised ed.). Dover.
574:Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature
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276:Diameter
270:Latitude
227:Apollo 16
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191:Nectarian
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806:(1999).
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