Diameter 100 m | ||
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Eponym Astronaut-named feature |
Van Serg is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission, during EVA 3. Van Serg was designated Geology Station 9.
To the northwest is Shakespeare and to the northeast are Cochise and Geology Station 8 at the base of the Sculptured Hills. To the south is Sherlock, and to the southwest are the Apollo 17 landing site and the large crater Camelot.
The crater was named by the astronauts after Professor Hugh McKinstry, who used the pseudonym Nicholas Van Serg.
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