Wood (crater)

Wood

Oblique Lunar Orbiter 5 image, facing west
Coordinates	43°40′N 121°50′W / 43.66°N 121.83°W / 43.66; -121.83Coordinates: 43°40′N 121°50′W / 43.66°N 121.83°W / 43.66; -121.83
Diameter	84 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	122° at sunrise
Eponym	Robert W. Wood

Wood is a lunar impact crater that lies entirely within the interior of the much larger walled plain Landau, on the far side of Moon. Wood is situated along the northwestern part of the floor of Landau, and shares a common northwestern rim with the larger impact. The inner wall of the northwest rim extends inward about halfway toward the crater midpoint, where there is a central peak. The rim of Wood is somewhat worn and uneven, with a small crater laid across the southwest section. The surviving interior floor is nearly level and is marked only by a few tiny craterlets.

Wood lies at the approximate margin of the Coulomb-Sarton Basin, a 530 km wide impact crater of Pre-Nectarian age.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Wood.