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Amontons (crater)

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Diameter
  
3 km

Colongitude
  
213° at sunrise

Depth
  
Unknown

Eponym
  
Guillaume Amontons

Amontons (crater)

Amontons is a tiny lunar crater in the western half of the Mare Fecunditatis. It is a circular, cup-shaped formation that has been excavated out of the level surface by the impact, and is the same dark hue as the surrounding mare. When the sun is at a low angle, multiple ghost-craters are visible in the mare surface to the south-southeast and north of it.

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Amontons (crater) Wikipedia