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Kohlschütter is a The geologic history of the Moon
lunar
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impact crater
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that cannot be viewed directly from the Earth
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as it lies on the Moon
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's far side. It is located a couple of hundred kilometers to the southeast of the Mare Moscoviense
; ) is a lunar mare that sits in the Moscoviense basin. It is one of the very few maria on the far side of the Moon.
Geology
Like Mare Marginis, this mare appears to be fairly thin. However, it is clearly centered within a large impact basin. ...
, and due south of the smaller crater Nagaoka. It is a relatively isolated formation surrounded by a multitude of smaller impacts typical of the battered far side.
The outer rim of Kohlschütter is worn and eroded, with a small crater across the northwest side, and smaller impacts along the west and northeastern edge. The southern rim is more shallow than elsewhere. The interior floor is relatively level, and unlike most far-side craters, it is filled with mare
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material. Despite its small size, the mare has a short sinuous rille west of the central peak and a wrinkle ridge
A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria, or basalt plains. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the mare surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. Wrinkle ridges are tectonic features ...
east of it.
Kohlschütter is a crater of Nectarian
The Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale was from 3.920 billion years ago to 3.850 billion years ago. It is the period during which the Nectaris Basin and other major basins were formed by large impact events. Ejecta from Nectaris for ...
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Professional Paper 1348. By Don E. Wilhelms, John F. McCauley, and Newell J. Trask. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 1987. Table 9-4.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Kohlschütter.
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