Ground site

Copernicus crater

A crater 96 km across and nearly 4 km deep, young for the Moon, its bright rays crossing the plains. Best at sunrise or sunset, when its walls cast shadows.

Key facts

On

The Moon

Where

9.62° N, 339.92° E

See it from here

This one is standing on the Moon. You will not pick it out by eye from here, however clear the night.

How the map draws it

A named place: nothing is drawn here but a mark at its centre, from the IAU gazetteer; the ground under it is the map itself.