presents MARIOTTE Farside Directory - Ridge Section 145

BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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Ridge Section 145 is Mariotte, a 65 km elongated crater located on the lunar Far Side. This formation is located about one crater diameter to the southwest of the smaller Das. This crater is longer to the southeast by about an extra 5 km, giving this feature an egg-shaped outline. The outer rim is sharp-edged and little eroded. The interior floor is uneven, particularly toward the southeastern end. Directly north is Murakami (formerly Murakami Y). To the southeast of Mariotte is the large crater Chebyshev (out of frame). The most interesting item on both sections 145 and 144 is the crater chain and ray system easily visible in both frames (See second link above). [Note: The caption "Barringer" in the cropped color chart refers to the crater in the adjacent section and not 145] (Credit: Some of the information used in the section feature descriptions was obtained from wikipedia.org. Section 145 and this directory was created by Fran Ridge and Ned Haskin of The Lunascan Project).