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Goclenius is a lunar crater that is located near the west edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It lies to the southeast of the lava-flooded crater Gutenberg, and north of Magelhaens crater. To the northwest is a parallel rille system that follow a course toward the northwest, running for a length of up to 240 kilometers. This feature is named the Rimae Goclenius. The rim of this crater is worn, distorted and irregular, having an somewhat egg-like outline. The crater floor has been covered in lava, and a rille cuts across the floor toward the northwest, in the same direction as the other members of the Rimae Goclenius. A similar rille lies across the floor of Gutenberg crater, and it is likely that these features were all formed at the same time, after the original creaters were created. |
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