Schematic elevation, rendered from catalogue data. Sunlight from the west.

Diameter
6.6 km
Depth
1,210 m
Terrain
Cratered upland
Tier
Highland
Highland

JTC-2536

Southern Highlands

38.70° S, 16.40° E

Deep in the ancient southern highlands, on terrain so saturated with impacts that every new crater lands inside an older one.

Seeing it from Joshua Tree

The southern highlands are the roughest, most three-dimensional part of the Moon in a telescope.

The bright, ancient uplands. Rougher country, more dramatic in a telescope.

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Name this crater
Where it sits

Its place on the near side

The Moon keeps one face turned toward Earth, so your crater is fixed in the same spot of sky every clear night of your life.

JTC-2536 lies at 38.70° S, 16.40° E, in Southern Highlands. On the map, north is up and east is to the right, exactly as it appears through a telescope from the high desert.

The near side of the Moon, photographed through a telescope
1.0×
NEW
Also unclaimed

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