page_title: Lara (lunar crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Lara (lunar crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lara crater, Taurus–Littrow valley, on the moon. Sun elevation 46 deg., spacecraft altitude 112 km.
context_page_description: Lara is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission, during EVA 2. Geology Station 3 of the mission is located on the northeast rim of Lara.
  Lara is located in the 'light mantle' which is almost certainly an avalanche deposit from the South Massif. To the south of Lara is Nansen crater and Geology Station 2. To the northeast is Shorty crater and Geology Station 4.
  The crater was named by the astronauts after the heroine of the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
context_section_description: Lara is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley.  Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission, during EVA 2.  Geology Station 3 of the mission is located on the northeast rim of Lara.
  Lara is located in the 'light mantle' which is almost certainly an avalanche deposit from the South Massif.  To the south of Lara is Nansen crater and Geology Station 2.  To the northeast is Shorty crater and Geology Station 4.
  The crater was named by the astronauts after the heroine of the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
caption: Apollo 17 panoramic camera image
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