Geological Chronicle
Eckert is a tiny, isolated lunar impact crater in the northern part of Mare Crisium, a circular region of relatively dark, flat material on the surface of the Moon. With a diameter of 2.62 kilometers, this crater forms a circular pit in the dark surface of the surrounding mare.
Just to the west is a wrinkle ridge in the mare surface, a feature that is prominent only under oblique lighting from the Sun. Across the broader Mare Crisium basin, the nearest craters of note are Peirce to the west-northwest and Picard to the southwest.
The International Astronomical Union officially approved the crater's name in 1973. The feature is named for American astronomer Wallace John Eckert.