Boris is a tiny
lunar impact crater that is located on the
Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium (Latin ''imbrium'', the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", "Sea of Tears") is a vast lava plain within the Imbrium Basin on the Moon and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System. The Imbrium Basin formed from the colli ...
, to the northeast of the crater
Delisle. It lies near the southwest extremity of a sinuous
rille that is designated Rima Delisle. This rille meanders to the northeast, towards the crater
Heis, before vanishing into the
lunar mare. The name ''Boris'' is a common Russian male given name; the crater is not named after a specific person.
See also
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Borya (crater)
Borya is a tiny crater on the Moon. It is near the site where Soviet lunar rover Lunokhod 1 landed in November 1970, in the Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium (Latin ''imbrium'', the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", "Sea of Tears") is a vast la ...
- a crater named after the diminutive form of Boris
References
External links
Map of the region*
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Impact craters on the Moon
Mare Imbrium