Geological Chronicle
Eötvös is the remnant of an impact crater measuring 101.8 kilometers across on the far side of the Moon. Located in the Jules Verne quadrangle at coordinates 35.61° S and 134.43° E, the crater is named for Hungarian physicist Lóránt von Eötvös. It lies to the north-northwest of the walled plain Roche and east-southeast of the ruined crater Bolyai.
Only the northwestern section of the crater's rim survives, while the remainder forms a battered, uneven circular rise. The rim is nearly non-existent along the southeast where it joins an uneven plain reaching the rim of Roche. Small craters lie along the rim to the northeast, with another situated to the southwest.
The interior floor is relatively level, though marked by a number of small craterlets alongside circular rises known as palimpsests. These subtle surface elevations are now scarcely recognizable as craters.