Saha (crater)

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Saha

Lunar Orbiter 2 image

Diameter| 99 km
Depth| Unknown
Colongitude| 258° at sunrise
Obilque view of Saha (at left), with the Apollo 16 CSM above Saha W and the Earth at right above the horizon Obilque view of Saha from Apollo 17 View of Saha from Apollo 14

Saha is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side, behind the eastern limb as seen from the Earth. It lies less than one crater diameter due east of the similar-sized Wyld, and to the north-northwest of the large walled plain Pasteur.

This crater has been worn and damaged by subsequent impacts, including the satellite crater Saha W which lies across the northwest rim and inner wall. The inner sides still display some terrace-like shelf structures, but these have become worn and have lost definition. There is a small, bowl-shaped crater Saha M in the southwestern part of the interior floor. To the north of this feature is an arcing ridge feature. The floor is otherwise pitted by various tiny craterlets. This crater is a proposed site of Lunar Crater Radio Telescope along with Daedalus crater.[1]

## 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 Saha.

Saha  | Latitude  | Longitude  | Diameter

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B  | 1.5° N  | 104.5° E  | 34 km
C  | 1.4° N  | 107.8° E  | 64 km
D  | 0.1° N  | 107.5° E  | 35 km
E  | 0.2° S  | 107.6° E  | 28 km
J  | 4.0° S  | 105.3° E  | 52 km
M  | 2.2° S  | 102.6° E  | 18 km
N  | 4.1° S  | 101.5° E  | 49 km
W  | 0.6° S  | 101.4° E  | 34 km

* Saha E crater from Apollo 11

## References

1. ↑ Stenger, Richard (9 January 2002). "Astronomers push for observatory on the moon". CNN. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/01/05/lunar.observatory/.

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