Stokes (lunar crater)

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Stokes is a relatively small impact crater on the far western edge of the lunar front side, therefore, is sometimes invisible due to the libration, and, if it visible from the Earth, then highly distorted. It is located west of Oceanus Procellarum on the southwestern edge of the crater Volta, between approximately the same size craters Regnault in the north and in the south Langley. The rim is moderately eroded.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 by the Irish physicist George Gabriel Stokes.