Möbius (crater)
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This article is about the lunar crater. For other uses, see Moebius.
| Crater characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 15.8° N, 101.2° E |
| Diameter | 50 km |
| Depth | Unknown |
| Colongitude | 259° at sunrise |
| Eponym | August F. Möbius |
Möbius is a lunar crater that is located on the Moon's far side, beyond the eastern limb and northeast of the Mare Marginis. It lies less than a crater diameter to the northwest of the larger, 90-km-diameter Hertz crater, and just to the southeast of Popov crater. To the north of Mobius is the crater chain designated Catena Dziewulski, named for the Dziewulski crater to the north-northwest.
This is a moderately worn crater formation, with a smaller crater intruding into the western rim and a small crater cutting across the rim at the southern end. The rim is relatively low and the interior is marked only by a few tiny craterlets and some higher albedo markings in the southwestern quadrant.
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