| Coordinates: | 14.57°N 54.72°W |
| Diameter: | 23 km |
| Depth: | 2.4 km |
| Colong: | 306 |
| Eponym: | Jean-Félix Picard |
Picard is a lunar impact crater that lies in Mare Crisium. The crater is named for 17th century French astronomer and geodesist Jean Picard. It is the biggest non-flooded crater of this mare, being slightly larger than Peirce to the north-northwest. To the west is the almost completely flooded crater Yerkes. To east of Picard is the tiny Curtis.
Picard is a crater from the Eratosthenian period, which lasted from 3.2 to 1.1 billion years ago.[1] Inside Picard is a series of terraces that seismologists have attributed to a collapse of the crater floor. It has a cluster of low hills at the bottom.[2]
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Picard.[3]
| Picard | Coordinates | Diameter, km | |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | 9 | ||
| L | 7 | ||
| M | 8 | ||
| N | 19 | ||
| P | 8 | ||
| Y | 4 |
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.