[2] Hermite is a worn, eroded crater with a rugged outer rim that is notched and incised from past impacts.

The interior floor has been resurfaced, so that it forms a wide plain that is pock-marked by numerous tiny craterlets and low hills.

In 2009, it was discovered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that Hermite is the coldest place recorded in the solar system, with temperatures at 26 kelvins (−413 °F, −247 °C).

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

[7] A further analysis of the crater in 2022 using data from the Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiters found that ice may exist in clusters on the walls and some parts of the floor of Hermite A.