☄️ Apollo (crater)

Other · Other · 35.69°S, 151.48°W

Apollo, also called the Apollo basin, is a large impact crater located on the far side of the Moon, in the southern hemisphere. This class of formation is known as a peak ring basin, which has a single interior topographic ring or a discontinuous ring of peaks with no central peak. It was previously known as Basin XVI; in 1970 it was officially named after the Apollo missions by the International Astronomical Union.

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Country	Other
Continent / region	Other
Coordinates (approx.)	35.69°S, 151.48°W · view on map

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