Gardner (crater)

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Gardner

Apollo 17 Mapping Camera image

Diameter| 18 km
Depth| 3.0 km
Colongitude| 327° at sunrise
Oblique view from Apollo 15 The Gardner Megadome, from Apollo 17

Gardner is a small lunar impact crater in the northeast part of the Moon. It was named after an American physicist Irvine Clifton Gardner in 1976.[1] It lies due east of the crater Vitruvius, in a section of rough terrain north of the Mare Tranquillitatis. Gardner was previously designated Vitruvius A before being given its present name by the IAU. To the northeast of Gardner is the larger crater Maraldi.

It is a circular crater with sloping inner walls and an interior floor that occupies about half the total crater diameter. The southern half of the floor has a slight rise before reaching the inner wall. The crater is not significantly eroded, and the outer rim is relatively sharp and well-defined. The most distinctive feature is a row of four rounded hills along the northern floor of the crater.

To the south is an elevated area unofficially known as the Gardner Megadome.[2] In the vicinity of the dome are satellite craters including Vitruvius B, H, and T, and Maraldi D.

## References

1. ↑ "Gardner (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
2. ↑ The Lamont - Gardner Megadome Alignment: A Lunar Volcano-Tectonic Structure? Charles A. Wood, with images by Wes Higgins, KC Pau and Giorgio Mengoli, Managua Office, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ 85719. PDF

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## External links

* LTO-43D4 Vitruvius -- L&PI topographic map
* Debris Flows in Gardner Crater \- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter page with images

### Related articles

* Wood, Chuck (August 16, 2004). "Megadome". Lunar Photo of the Day. https://www2.lpod.org/wiki/August_16,_2004. \- also featuring the surrounding craters
* Wood, Chuck (September 26, 2004). "Astonishing Megadome". Lunar Photo of the Day. https://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_26,_2004.
* Wood, Chuck (July 28, 2014). "Quantified Mountain". Lunar Photo of the Day. https://www2.lpod.org/wiki/July_28,_2014.

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