Bruce (moon crater)
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| position | 1.15 ° N , 0.35 ° E | |
| diameter | 6 km | |
| depth | 1270 m | |
| Card sheet | 59 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816-1900) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Bruce is a small impact crater in the Sinus Medii , an almost crater-free basalt plain in the middle of the visible half of the moon. It lies west-northwest of the irregularly shaped crater Rhaeticus and a little west of the even smaller crater Blagg . The crater is bowl-shaped and symmetrical, and both the rim and inner surface are free of noticeable impact marks. The interior generally has a higher albedo than the surrounding area, except for a strip of darker material that crosses the center from west to east. The area is formed by Maria and has only a few tiny impacts in the east.
The zero point of the selenographic coordinate system is about 35 km to the south , so that from the bottom of this crater the earth is always at the zenith . The two lunar probes Surveyor 4 and Surveyor 6 landed about 50 kilometers west of Bruce in the smooth lava plain.
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2000, p. 271
Web links
- Bruce in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Bruce crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
