Volta (moon crater)

Volta
Volta top left ( LROC -WAC)
position	54.06 °  N , 84.37 °  W Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '36 "  N , 84 ° 22' 12"  W.
diameter	128 km
depth	3580 m
Card sheet	21 (PDF)
Named after	Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
Named since	1964
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Volta is an impact crater on the extreme western edge of the front of the moon , so it is sometimes invisible as a result of the libration and, when visible from Earth, is strongly distorted. It lies west of the Oceanus Procellarum , north of Galvani and northwest of Repsold . The western edge is partially covered by the smaller Regnault crater and touches the edge of Stokes . The crater rim is relatively heavily eroded.

List of minor craters of Volta

Letter	position	diameter	link
B.	54.49 °  N , 83.46 °  W	9 km	[1]
D.	52.52 °  N , 83.03 °  W	21 km	[2]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta .

Web links

• Volta in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Volta on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .