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Campanus is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium. It forms a crater pair with Mercator crater just to the southeast. Along the southern rampart of Campanus is the small lunar mare named Palus Epidemiarum . To the southwest is the small Dunthorne crater .
The rim of Campanus is roughly circular, with an outward bulge along the western rim and an inward bulge to the north-northwest. The outer wall has not been significantly eroded, although it has a low saddle-point along the south. The interior floor has been resurfaced by basaltic- lava, leaving only a small central peak projecting above the surface. The floor has the same low albedo as the nearby mare, giving it a dark appearance. It is marked by a pair of tiny craterlets near the northeast and northwest interior walls.
To the west of Campanus crater is the rille system named Rimae Hippalus. Another rille system lies to the south, designated Rimae Ramsden.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing the
letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Campanus
crater.
| Campanus
| Latitude
| Longitude
| Diameter
|
| A
| 26.0° S
| 28.6° W
| 11 km
|
| B
| 29.2° S
| 29.2° W
| 6 km
|
| G
| 28.6° S
| 31.3° W
| 10 km
|
| K
| 26.6° S
| 28.3° W
| 5 km
|
| X
| 27.8° S
| 27.3° W
| 4 km
|
| Y
| 27.8° S
| 28.2° W
| 4 km
|
Craters on the Moon
