page_title: Mandel'shtam (crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Mandel'shtam (crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: View of part of the interior of Mandel'shtam crater, on the far side of the moon, with north at top. This is Figure 28-6 of the 'Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report' (NASA SP-315, 1972), which has the following caption: Part of Apollo 16 pan camera frame 4150 showing details of a typical far-side highlands scarp in the floor of Mandel'shtam Crater (fig. 28-5). The picture width is approximately 10 km.
context_page_description: Mandel'shtam is the remains of a large crater on the Moon's far side. Nearly attached to the northeast outer rim is the crater Papaleksi. To the south lies the crater Vening Meinesz.
  The outer rim of this crater has been battered into near ruin, with sections forming only an irregular circular rise in the surface. Much of the rim consists of clefts, small craters, and ridges. The satellite crater Mandel'shtam R breaks across the rim to the west-southwest, and Mandel'shtam Y is attached to the northern edge.
  The interior floor of the crater has not escaped bombardment, and the central portion is overlain by Mandel'shtam A, a respectable crater in its own right. Mandel'shtam N lies on the interior along the south-southwestern inner edge. The northwestern floor and to a lesser degree the southeast floor are relatively level, and have suffered less impact damage than elsewhere.
  The small crater Mandel'shtam F to the east has a small ray system with several faint, streaky rays overlaying the floor of Mandel'shtam.
context_section_description: Mandel'shtam is the remains of a large crater on the Moon's far side. Nearly attached to the northeast outer rim is the crater Papaleksi. To the south lies the crater Vening Meinesz.
  The outer rim of this crater has been battered into near ruin, with sections forming only an irregular circular rise in the surface. Much of the rim consists of clefts, small craters, and ridges. The satellite crater Mandel'shtam R breaks across the rim to the west-southwest, and Mandel'shtam Y is attached to the northern edge.
  The interior floor of the crater has not escaped bombardment, and the central portion is overlain by Mandel'shtam A, a respectable crater in its own right. Mandel'shtam N lies on the interior along the south-southwestern inner edge. The northwestern floor and to a lesser degree the southeast floor are relatively level, and have suffered less impact damage than elsewhere.
  The small crater Mandel'shtam F to the east has a small ray system with several faint, streaky rays overlaying the floor of Mandel'shtam.
caption: The floor of Mandel'shtam, showing a typical highlands scarp at right.  From Apollo 16.
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