Geological Chronicle
Hess-Apollo is a small lunar crater measuring 0.64 kilometers in diameter within the Taurus–Littrow valley. Located at selenographic coordinates 20.0931° N, 30.7454° E in quadrangle LAC-43, the crater sits directly adjacent to the crater Mackin of similar dimensions. Nearby features include Camelot to the north, Emory to the northeast, Nansen to the west, and Shorty and Lara to the northwest.
During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed north of the crater. Although the crew referred to the feature simply as Hess during mission operations, they named the crater after geologist Harry Hammond Hess. The astronauts did not visit the crater.