page_title: Picard (crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Picard (crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Picard, on the moon.
context_page_description: Picard is a lunar impact crater that lies in Mare Crisium. The crater is named for 17th century French astronomer and geodesist Jean Picard. It is the biggest non-flooded crater of this mare, being slightly larger than Peirce to the north-northwest. To the west is the almost completely flooded crater Yerkes. To east of Picard is the tiny Curtis.
  Picard is a crater from the Eratosthenian period, which lasted from 3.2 to 1.1 billion years ago. Inside Picard is a series of terraces that seismologists have attributed to a collapse of the crater floor. It has a cluster of low hills at the bottom.
context_section_description: Picard is a lunar impact crater that lies in Mare Crisium. The crater is named for 17th century French astronomer and geodesist Jean Picard. It is the biggest non-flooded crater of this mare, being slightly larger than Peirce to the north-northwest. To the west is the almost completely flooded crater Yerkes. To east of Picard is the tiny Curtis.
  Picard is a crater from the Eratosthenian period, which lasted from 3.2 to 1.1 billion years ago.  Inside Picard is a series of terraces that seismologists have attributed to a collapse of the crater floor.  It has a cluster of low hills at the bottom.
caption: Apollo 17 Mapping camera image
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