Fra Mauro crater

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Fra Mauro crater is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, best known for lending its name to the Fra Mauro formation and the intended Apollo 13 landing site.

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Fra Mauro crater canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lunar impact crater
lunar surface feature
cataloguedIn International Astronomical Union lunar nomenclature
condition heavily eroded
coordinateSystem selenographic coordinates
diameter approximately 95 kilometers
eponymOf Fra Mauro formation
Fra Mauro landing site
exploredBy Apollo 14 astronauts
formedBy impact event
geologicAge Imbrian
hasApproximateLatitude 6.0° S
hasApproximateLongitude 17.0° W
hasFloorCharacteristic relatively uneven floor
hasInteriorFeature Fra Mauro formation
hasMorphologicalType walled plain
hasRimState worn and irregular rim
hasSatelliteCrater Fra Mauro A
linked to: Fra Mauro

Fra Mauro B
Fra Mauro C
Fra Mauro D
linked to: Fra Mauro

Fra Mauro E
Fra Mauro F
Fra Mauro G
Fra Mauro H
Fra Mauro K
Fra Mauro L
linked to: Fra Mauro

Fra Mauro M
Fra Mauro N
Fra Mauro P
Fra Mauro R
Fra Mauro S
Fra Mauro T
Fra Mauro U
Fra Mauro V
linked to: Fra Mauro S

Fra Mauro W
Fra Mauro X
linked to: Fra Mauro B

Fra Mauro Y
Fra Mauro Z
liesNorthOf Parry crater
liesSouthOf Mare Imbrium
liesSouthwestOf Ptolemaeus crater
liesWestOf Bonpland crater
locatedIn Mare Cognitum region
linked to: Mare Cognitum
locatedOn Moon
locatedOnSide near side of the Moon
namedAfter Fra Mauro
observedBy Apollo orbital photography
Earth-based telescopes
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft
surfaceComposition breccia-rich ejecta blanket
wasActualLandingSiteFor Apollo 14 mission
linked to: Apollo 14
wasIntendedLandingSiteFor Apollo 13 mission
linked to: Apollo 13

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Fra Mauro formation namedAfter Fra Mauro crater
Fra Mauro formation adjacentTo Fra Mauro crater