Faye (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=21.4
N_or_S=S
longitude=3.9
E_or_W=E
diameter=36 km
depth=2.4 km
colong=357
eponym=Hervé Faye

Faye is a heavily eroded lunar crater in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon. It is attached to the northeastern rim of the Delaunay crater, with Donati crater located just a few kilometers to the northeast. It forms part of a chain of craters of increasing size to the southwest that continues with La Caille and ends with the Purbach walled plain.

The rim of Faye crater is heavily damaged, particularly along the western half and covers much of the southwestern interior floor. The rim is nearly non-existent in the northwest, where a gap joins the interior with the surrounding terrain. The surviving interior floor is relatively featureless, with a central peak rising at the mid-point. There is a small craterlet and the incised remnant of a small crater rim in the northeast part of the floor.

atellite 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 Faye crater.

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