Glushko (crater)

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Glushko is an impact crater on the westernmost edge of the lunar front side, therefore, if at all, only highly distorted from Earth visible. It lies on the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum, north-west of the crater Olbers, whose rampart he partially covers.

Glushko is a young crater and the center of an extensive system of rays, which stretches down to the northeast in the plane of the Oceanus Procellarum. Although the ray system in its extension corresponds to the large ray crater, it is hardly noticeable by its location at the edge and can only be discerned in the plan view of an orbiter. The rim is irregularly shaped, the inner wall shows traces of landslides on.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1994 after the Russian aerospace engineer Valentin Petrovich Glushko. Previously, the crater had been called Olbers A.