IAU Lunar Nomenclature
Virtanen
Virtanen is an officially adopted crater, craters on the Moon. Explore its selenographic position and surrounding terrain in 3D.
Feature Profile
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Coordinates
- 15.64° N · 176.74° E
- Diameter
- 39.64676 km
- IAU approval
- 1979/01/01 00:00:00
- LAC quadrangle
- LAC-68 · Sharonov
Name origin
Artturi Ilmari; Finnish agricultural biochemist; Nobel laureate (1895-1973).