Vallis Bouvard

The Vallis Bouvard is a moon valley at the extreme western edge of the moon 's front panel. It stretches over a distance of almost 300 kilometers from a point northeast of the crater Baade, near the crater Bouvard D, in a northeasterly direction to the vicinity of the crater Shaler. It does so as well as the adjacent structures of the Vallis Baade and Vallis Inghirami towards the large impact basins Mare Orientale. At its widest point it is about 50 km wide.

The Vallis Bouvard is the only moon valley, which is its name to a group of extensions craters:

The structure was officially named by the IAU in 1970 after the French mathematician and astronomer Alexis Bouvard.