Wallace (Martian crater)
Floor of Wallace Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
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| Planet | Mars |
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| Coordinates | 52°54′S 110°36′E / 52.9°S 110.6°ECoordinates: 52°54′S 110°36′E / 52.9°S 110.6°E |
| Diameter | 173 km |
| Eponym | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Wallace Crater is an impact crater in the Hellas quadrangle on Mars at 52.9°S and 249.4°W and is 173.0 km in diameter. Its name was approved in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), and it was named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
Nearby craters include Secchi to the southwest and Tikhov nearly to the northwest.
The crater overlaps an unnamed crater half a diameter covering from the middle to the west and the north, some peaks domninate south of it south of that is a smaller unnamed crater.
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