Tags: Crater.
Murchison is a lunar crater on the north edge of the Sinus Medii named in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison. It shares a section of rim with the crater Pallas. To the southeast on the mare is the circular crater Chladni and to the northeast is Ukert. Farther to the east is the prominent Triesnecker. Murchison lies astride the lunar zenith line i.e. the starting longitude of the selenographic coordinate system.
