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Description: This brightly-rayed crater lies on the far side of the Moon. Here is the original NASA caption:

"An Apollo 11 oblique view of a bright-rayed crater on the lunar farside. The crater is unnamed. The center of this photograph is located at 100 degrees east longitude and 4 degrees 30 minutes north latitude. This area is just east of Smyth's Sea."

This is a small, unnamed craterlet that lies between Erro crater to the west-northwest and Saenger crater to the east. It has a diameter of only a few kilometers.

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Source: NASA image AS11-42-6285. The black borders have been cropped from the original image.

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