Louville
Sign in to saveLouville is a lunar impact crater that is located on the western edge of the Sinus Roris, a bay in the northern part of the Oceanus Procellarum. It lies to the northwest of the crater Mairan, on a triangular section of continental terrain to the west of Sinus Iridum and the Mare Imbrium.
Key facts
- Lunar crater.image
- Louville crater 4158 h2.jpg
- Lunar crater.caption
- Lunar Orbiter 4 image
- Lunar crater.diameter
- 36 km
- Lunar crater.depth
- 1.0 km
- Lunar crater.colong
- 46
- Lunar crater.eponym
- Jacques E. D'Allonville
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Louville is a lunar impact crater that is located on the western edge of the Sinus Roris, a bay in the northern part of the Oceanus Procellarum. It lies to the northwest of the crater Mairan, on a triangular section of continental terrain to the west of Sinus Iridum and the Mare Imbrium.
This crater formation has been heavily eroded by impacts, to the point where the surface is somewhat difficult to distinguish from the surrounding rugged terrain to the east. It is now an irregular depression in the surface, with worn, uneven features. The small crater Louville B lies along the western rim, while Louville A lies just to the southeast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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