Cassini (lunar crater)

Cassini is a lunar impact crater that is located in the Palus Nebularum, at the eastern end of Mare Imbrium.

[1] To the northeast is the Promontorium Agassiz, the southern tip of the Montes Alpes mountain range.

The surface is peppered with a multitude of impacts, including a pair of significant craters contained entirely within the rim.

The walls of this crater are narrow and irregular in form but remain intact despite the lava flooding.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Cassini.

Cassini Crater (to the right) in a Selenochromatic Image (Si)
Oblique view from Apollo 15
The crater Cassini, from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. Inset graph is elevations taken across the green line, from left to right, and includes dips at the locations of subcraters Cassini B (left) and Cassini A (right).
Cassini and its satellite craters taken from Earth in 2012 at the University of Hertfordshire's Bayfordbury Observatory with the telescopes Meade LX200 14" and Lumenera Skynyx 2-1