Tags: Crater.
Torricelli is a lunar crater in the eastern part of the Sinus Asperitatis to the south of the Mare Tranquillitatis. The western rim of the crater is broken open and joined to a smaller crater to the west. The entire formation has a pear-shaped appearance. Torricelli lies in the northeastern part of a circular formation of rises in the lunar mare possibly the remains of a crater formation buried by lava.