Tesla (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates 38.5° N, 124.7° E
Diameter 31 km
Depth Unknown
Colongitude 235° at sunrise
Eponym Nikola Tesla

Tesla is a lunar crater that is located on the Moon's far side, just to the southeast of the larger H. G. Wells crater. About a crater diameter to the southwest of Tesla is Kidinnu crater, and to the southeast is Van Maanen crater.

This is a circular, bowl-shaped feature. There are a pair of small craterlets in the southern inner wall, but the crater is otherwise free of overlapping craters of significance. Only a few tiny impacts mark the floor and remaining sides.

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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Tesla crater.

Tesla Latitude Longitude Diameter
J 37.2° N 126.7° E 18 km

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