Littrow Crater
Commentary Copyright © 1995
by Eric M. Jones.
All rights reserved.
Last revised 20 December 2005
Detail from LTO43D3 showing Littrow Crater and the Apollo 17 landing site
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Littrow Crater is named for Czech-born Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781-1840) who was a as director of the Vienna Observatory from 1819-40. The crater in the southwestern part of the Taurus Mountains that form the highlands east of Mare Serenitatis. It has a east-west rim diameter of about 30 km. The crater center is about 44 km NNE of the Apollo 17 landing site.
Portrait of Joseph Johann von Littrow
from his 1836 Physische Astronomie (Physical Astronomy)
Scan courtesy Ulrich Lotzmann
