An Impressive Little Crater on the Moon

If I ask you to close your eyes and picture a crater on the Moon, I bet what would come to your mind is a bowl-shaped depression, a raised rim, and maybe a central peak. You might also picture the surrounding area, which looks pretty featureless except for other craters.

I would also bet you wouldn't picture anything like this:…

Isn't that lovely? … Looking like a kilometer-wide flower on the lunar surface, it's an unnamed crater just south of Mare Crisium, on the Moon's eastern limb near the equator. This image, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, spans a distance of about 2.2 km (1.3 miles) across and the full-res image has a resolution of roughly 1.5 meters per pixel.…

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