Scattered around the "shoreline" south of the Mare Humorum there are several unusual lunar craters. Most notable is Gassendi, a gigantic crater to the north on the south bank have Doppelmayer, like a copy of the half Gassendi size. Both are shallow craters with a central mountain range and a network of rilles and ridges on their floors. To the east of Doppelmayer we find Vitello, looking like a miniature version size Gassendi and pertecendo to a family crater "clones".

Vitello is a lunar crater that lies along the southern edge of the Mare Humorum in the southwestern part of the Moon. It lies east of the crater wall with Lee having broken northeast along the edge of Mare Humorum Rupes Kelvin, a line of irregular failure.

This crater has a low edge, roughly circular, and a sharp edge. The interior floor is irregular, rugged and mountainous, with a shift to the east of the lower midpoint, concentric crater.

Vitello was once believed to be a boiler instead of an impact crater.

The most attractive feature of Vitello is a circular bright rille involving the brilliant chain of central peaks. The bright rille appears in a small crater near the northern border, and after winding path south for 10 km makes a perfect curve around the central peaks.

Charles Wood tells us that these flat-floored craters around the Humorum are fractured ground craters and suggests that these craters were elevated by lava quee broke the crust and flowed.

With occasional events or faults meteorite impacts, the washing fluid could have at one time or gradually over a long period of time.

The origin of the floor fractured craters on the moon is still under discussion, but are suspected volcanic intrusions, and some of the fractures are associated with Dark Mantle Deposits (DMD), which are likely to pyroclastic origin. In Vitello, they were not clearly documented DMD. But since the circular cracks are well developed in this crater, tephra or any low-reflectance volcanic materials may have covered the surface of the fractured floor, providing the dark material flowed to the open cracks.

Source: Sydney Observatory

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            Project Gutenberg Consortia Center

Adaptation and text: Avani Soares