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Opelt is the lava-flooded remnant of a lunar crater on the Mare Nubium. It lies to the north of a similar formation named Gould and to the northeast of the prominent Bullialdus.Only a slightly raised outline remains of Opelt’s rim the interior having been inundated with lava. The rim has a wide break at the northern end and several smaller breaks to the south and southeast. The satellite craterlet Opelt E lies at the southern end of the surviving western rim.

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