Turner (crater)

Turner (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=1.4
N_or_S=S
longitude=13.2
E_or_W=W
diameter=12 km
depth=2.6 km
colong=13
eponym=Herbert H. Turner

Turner is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the of the Mare Insularum, near the equator of the Moon. It is located to the southeast of Gambart crater. Turner is a circular, cone-shaped crater with inner walls that slope down to the mid-point. A similar-sized ghost-crater is attached to the western rim, its interior floor submerged by lava and the surviving rim broken in the southwest.

atellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Turner crater.

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