Buys-Ballot (Moon)

Named after Christoph Hendrik Diederik Buys-Ballot - Dutch meteorologist (1817-1890).

Buys-Ballot is an oddly-shaped lunar crater on the far side. It lies just to the northwest of the small lunar mare named Lacus Luxuriae, and southeast of the crater Freundlich. Other nearby craters of note are Anderson to the southwest and Dante to the northeast. This formation has a distinctive shape for a crater, having a prominent extension to the south that nearly doubles the dimension compared to the width across the maximum west-east cross-section. (wikipedia entry)

A crater is a circular depression likely created by an impact event. On the Moon they are named after deceased scientists, polar explorers, astronauts or cosmonauts.

NW 172 km

Freundlich(last)

MRV
2 Hours 41 Minutes
Walking
3 Days 6 Hours

N 50 km

Buys-Ballot Z

Walking
23 Hours 4 Minutes

NE 154 km

Dante S

MRV
2 Hours 24 Minutes
Walking
2 Days 22 Hours

W 200 km

Zernike Z

MRV
3 Hours 8 Minutes
Walking
3 Days 19 Hours

Buys-Ballot

20.86° N 174.82° E

E 150 km

Buys-Ballot H

MRV
2 Hours 21 Minutes
Walking
2 Days 20 Hours

SW 67 km

Buys-Ballot Q

MRV
1 Hour 3 Minutes
Walking
1 Day 6 Hours

S 123 km

Anderson E

MRV
1 Hour 55 Minutes
Walking
2 Days 8 Hours

SE 48 km

Lacus Luxuriae(next)

Walking
21 Hours 59 Minutes

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