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Lunar Orbiter 4 image | |
Coordinates | 55°48′S 91°24′E / 55.8°S 91.4°E |
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Diameter | 79 km |
Depth | Unknown |
Colongitude | 270° at sunrise |
Eponym | James Jeans |
Jeans is a lunar impact crater, on the southeastern limb of the Moon, with its majority lying on the far side. A favorable libration can bring the entire crater into view, but even then the details observable from Earth are very limited as the crater is viewed rather "edge-on".
Jeans is located nearly midway between the much larger walled plain Lyot on the near side and the crater Chamberlin on the far side.
It has a heavily worn and rounded outer rim, and several impacts lie along the southern and southeastern edge and inner wall. The most prominent of these intersecting craters are Jeans G across the eastern rim. The interior floor of the main crater has been resurfaced by basaltic lava, leaving a dark level surface marked only by a few tiny craterlets.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Jeans.
Jeans | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
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B | 52.4° S | 94.8° E | 11 km |
G | 56.0° S | 93.3° E | 22 km |
N | 58.7° S | 90.5° E | 64 km |
S | 56.8° S | 86.8° E | 56 km |
U | 54.7° S | 86.5° E | 57 km |
X | 53.5° S | 89.4° E | 44 km |
Y | 51.2° S | 90.5° E | 17 km |
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Lunar Orbiter 4 image | |
Coordinates | 55°48′S 91°24′E / 55.8°S 91.4°E |
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Diameter | 79 km |
Depth | Unknown |
Colongitude | 270° at sunrise |
Eponym | James Jeans |
Jeans is a lunar impact crater, on the southeastern limb of the Moon, with its majority lying on the far side. A favorable libration can bring the entire crater into view, but even then the details observable from Earth are very limited as the crater is viewed rather "edge-on".
Jeans is located nearly midway between the much larger walled plain Lyot on the near side and the crater Chamberlin on the far side.
It has a heavily worn and rounded outer rim, and several impacts lie along the southern and southeastern edge and inner wall. The most prominent of these intersecting craters are Jeans G across the eastern rim. The interior floor of the main crater has been resurfaced by basaltic lava, leaving a dark level surface marked only by a few tiny craterlets.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Jeans.
Jeans | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
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B | 52.4° S | 94.8° E | 11 km |
G | 56.0° S | 93.3° E | 22 km |
N | 58.7° S | 90.5° E | 64 km |
S | 56.8° S | 86.8° E | 56 km |
U | 54.7° S | 86.5° E | 57 km |
X | 53.5° S | 89.4° E | 44 km |
Y | 51.2° S | 90.5° E | 17 km |