Geological Chronicle
Schlüter is an 87.55-kilometer impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon's near side. The structure lies along the northwestern flank of the Montes Cordillera, the outer mountain ring that encircles Mare Orientale, nearly attached to the damaged crater Hartwig on its eastern rim.
Formed during the Late Imbrian epoch, the crater displays a roughly circular outer rim with bulges toward the north and southeast. Its inner perimeter contains systems of terraces alongside a slumped northern inner wall and a small double-crater set into the southern inner slope.
Schlüter is a floor-fractured crater with a slender rille near the northwestern wall and a patch of low-albedo material along the northern margin. In the midpoint of the floor, an elongated central ridge extends in a northerly direction, where infrared observations have identified pure crystalline plagioclase.