Geological Chronicle
Spanning 152.67 kilometers in diameter on the Moon's far side, Roche is a large, eroded crater named for French astronomer Édouard Albert. The prominent crater Pauli lies across Roche's southern rim, with Pauli's outer rampart covering a portion of Roche's interior floor. Nearby landmarks include Eötvös to the north-northwest and Rosseland just to the west-northwest.
The rim as a whole is worn and eroded, marked by multiple tiny craterlets. Roche's western margin has been somewhat distorted and straightened, while satellite crater Roche B lies across the northeastern inner wall.
Roche's interior floor is relatively level but peppered with small craterlets, including a central cluster and an adjacent patch of high-albedo material to the northwest. Sections along the north-northwestern floor show lower albedo, an indication of basaltic lava flows similar to lunar maria that may extend beneath higher-albedo ejecta.