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Plato crater is located in the lower left of the wide field image and Eratosthenes crater is located on the lower right side at the end of the range. The Plato crater diameter is just under 68 miles.

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Eratosthenes is a relatively deep lunar impact crater that lies on the boundary between the Mare Imbrium and Sinus Aestuum mare regions. The crater has a well-defined circular rim, terraced inner wall, central mountain peaks, an irregular floor, and an outer rampart of ejecta. It lacks a ray system of its own, but is overlain by rays from the prominent crater Copernicus to the south-west.

It is named after ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who estimated the diameter of the earth, and the distance to the moon and sun.

The crater is believed to have been formed about 3.2 billion years ago.

Diameter 59 km

Depth 3.6 km

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