Fra Mauro crater

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Fra Mauro crater is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, best known for lending its name to the Fra Mauro formation and the intended Apollo 13 landing site.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lunar impact crater
lunar surface feature
cataloguedIn International Astronomical Union lunar nomenclature NERFINISHED
condition heavily eroded
coordinateSystem selenographic coordinates
diameter approximately 95 kilometers
eponymOf Fra Mauro formation NERFINISHED
Fra Mauro landing site NERFINISHED
exploredBy Apollo 14 astronauts
formedBy impact event
geologicAge Imbrian
hasApproximateLatitude 6.0° S
hasApproximateLongitude 17.0° W
hasFloorCharacteristic relatively uneven floor
hasInteriorFeature Fra Mauro formation NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType walled plain
hasRimState worn and irregular rim
hasSatelliteCrater Fra Mauro A NERFINISHED
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Fra Mauro C NERFINISHED
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Fra Mauro R
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Fra Mauro Y
Fra Mauro Z NERFINISHED
liesNorthOf Parry crater NERFINISHED
liesSouthOf Mare Imbrium NERFINISHED
liesSouthwestOf Ptolemaeus crater NERFINISHED
liesWestOf Bonpland crater NERFINISHED
locatedIn Mare Cognitum region NERFINISHED
locatedOn Moon NERFINISHED
locatedOnSide near side of the Moon
namedAfter Fra Mauro NERFINISHED
observedBy Apollo orbital photography
Earth-based telescopes
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft NERFINISHED
surfaceComposition breccia-rich ejecta blanket
wasActualLandingSiteFor Apollo 14 mission NERFINISHED
wasIntendedLandingSiteFor Apollo 13 mission NERFINISHED

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Fra Mauro formation adjacentTo Fra Mauro crater
Fra Mauro formation namedAfter Fra Mauro crater