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Pentland (crater)

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The rim of this crater is somewhat worn, and it has a depression along the southern edge where it is attached to a small crater on the exterior. The inner wall retains some structure in places, and has a shelf along the northeast side. The interior floor is level, with an elongated central rise at
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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Pentland.
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the midpoint. Otherwise the floor is nearly featureless, except for a few tiny craterlets.
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The crater area in a Selenochromatic format Image (Si)
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Lunar Orbiter 4
Coordinates
64°36′S 11°30′E / 64.6°S 11.5°E / -64.6; 11.5
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Joseph B. Pentland
lunar
impact crater
Moon
Earth
Curtius
Zach

Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-0-521-81528-4
Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature
ISBN
978-0-936389-27-1
"Lunar Nomenclature"
Jonathan's Space Report

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