Maraldi (lunar crater)

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Maraldi

Apollo 17 Mapping Camera image

Diameter| 39.62 km
Depth| 1.3 km
Colongitude| 325° at sunrise
Context image showning Gardner (lower left) and Maraldi (center) from Apollo 17. NASA photo.

Maraldi is a worn, eroded crater on the western edge of the Sinus Amoris, in the northeast part of the Moon. To the west-southwest is the crater Vitruvius, and to the northwest lies the worn Littrow crater. Just to the northeast of the crater is the dome-like Mons Maraldi rise.

The crater is named after two Italian-born French astronomers: Giovanni Domenico Maraldi and Giacomo F. Maraldi.[1]

Maraldi has a very worn outer wall that is deeply incised and has the appearance of a circular range of peaks rather than a crater rim. The interior has been flooded with basaltic lava, leaving a flat surface with a low albedo. There is a low ridge just to the northwest of the midpoint, and several tiny craters mark the floor surface.

Maraldi is a crater of Nectarian age.[2]

## Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Maraldi.

Maraldi  | Latitude  | Longitude  | Diameter

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A  | 20.0° N  | 36.3° E  | 8 km
D  | 16.7° N  | 36.1° E  | 67 km
E  | 17.8° N  | 35.8° E  | 31 km
F  | 19.2° N  | 35.8° E  | 18 km
N  | 18.4° N  | 36.8° E  | 5 km
R  | 20.3° N  | 33.2° E  | 5 km
W  | 13.2° N  | 36.1° E  | 4 km

The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.

* Maraldi B -- See Lucian (crater).
* Maraldi M -- See Theophrastus (crater).

## References

1. ↑ "Maraldi (lunar crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
2. ↑ The geologic history of the Moon. USGS Professional Paper 1348. By Don E. Wilhelms, John F. McCauley, and Newell J. Trask. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 1987. Table 9-4.

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## External links

* Maraldi at The Moon Wiki
* Wood, Chuck (June 24, 2006). "Mons of Mystery". Lunar Photo of the Day. http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060624.

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