Jarvis is a
crater that lies on the
far side of the
Moon
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. It is located within the walled plain
Apollo
Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label= Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label ...
, and lies in the eastern half of this basin within the interior ring.
Jarvis has a low, somewhat worn outer rim that is generally circular. There is a wide break in the south-southeastern portion of the rim where is it partly overlain by the crater
McNair. The latter is younger than Jarvis, since its rim still survives where it intersects the interior of Jarvis. The interior of the crater is otherwise undistinguished, being marked only by tiny craters and some low ridges along the ramparts of McNair.
The crater name was approved by the
IAU
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in 1988 in honor of
Gregory Jarvis, killed in the
Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster on January 28, 1986.
Jarvis crater
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature The crater was formerly designated Borman Z, a satellite crater of Borman.
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Impact craters on the Moon