Suess (lunar crater)

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Suess is a small impact crater on the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum. It is about 9 kilometers wide and 0.5 kilometers deep, and it has a circular, cup-shaped form with brighter material around it. The nearby Reiner crater is roughly 150 kilometers to the west-northwest. The surrounding mare shows bright rays from Kepler crater to the east-northeast. A long, winding rille called Rima Suess starts about 30 kilometers east of the crater and runs for almost 200 kilometers toward the north-northwest. On lunar maps, labels are placed on the side of Suess’s midpoint closest to the feature being named. Suess is named after Eduard Suess.