Geological Chronicle
Mitra is an impact crater measuring 97.1 kilometers in diameter on the far side of the Moon. Situated within the Dirichlet–Jackson Basin, it is attached west of the larger crater Mach. Bredikhin lies just to the west, and Henyey is located to the south-southeast.
The formation is heavily eroded, with an outer rim damaged by subsequent impacts that have left very little of the original perimeter intact. A number of smaller impacts lie along the rim edge, and the satellite crater Mitra J is attached along the southeast exterior. Within the interior, a smaller crater occupies the southwestern floor, while a small, cup-shaped crater lies across its northeastern rim near Mitra's midpoint.
The crater was named in 1970 by the International Astronomical Union for Sisir Kumar Mitra, an Indian physicist and Padma Bhushan award recipient known for his pioneering work in ionospheric physics and radiophysics.