Wood (crater)

Wood
Clementine image, with Wood at center, and S and T at left
Coordinates43°40′N 121°50′W / 43.66°N 121.83°W / 43.66; -121.83
Diameter84 km
DepthUnknown
Colongitude122° at sunrise
EponymRobert W. Wood
Oblique Lunar Orbiter 5 image, facing west

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.