Lev is a tiny

lunar Lunar most commonly means "of or relating to the Moon". Lunar may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Lunar'' (series), a series of video games * "Lunar" (song), by David Guetta * "Lunar", a song by Priestess from the 2009 album ''Prior t ...

crater Crater may refer to: Landforms *Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet *Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ...

located in the southeast part of the

Mare Crisium Mare Crisium (Latin ''crisium'', the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. The basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago. Characteristics Mare Cri ...

in the east of the lunar near side. The crater is located between the larger crater

Fahrenheit The Fahrenheit scale () is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined his ...

to the northwest and the wrinkle ridge

Dorsa Harker Dorsa Harker is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Crisium on the Moon. It is 213 km long and was named after Alfred Harker, an English petrologist Petrology () is the branch of geology that studies rocks and the conditions under which they form. Petr ...

to the southeast. The name ''

Lev Lev may refer to: Common uses *Bulgarian lev, the currency of Bulgaria *an abbreviation for Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible and the Torah People and fictional characters *Lev (given name) *Lev (surname) Places *Lev, Azerbaijan, a ...

'' does not refer to a specific person; it is a Russian male given name. Northwest of the crater was the

Luna 24 ''Luna 24'' was a robotic probe of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. The last of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the ''Luna 24'' probe was the third Soviet mission to return lunar soil samples from the Moon (the first two sampl ...

landing site.

Location

References

External links

Lev at The Moon Wiki
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions t ...

page * {{cite web, last = Wood , first = Chuck , date = August 18, 2004 , url = http://www.lpod.org/archive/LPOD-2004-08-18.htm , title = Last Rocks from the Moon , publisher = Lunar Photo of the Day , accessdate=September 27, 2017 Impact craters on the Moon