Stella (crater) explained

Stella is a small lunar impact crater on the eastern side of Mare Serenitatis. It is a fresh crater with a prominent bright ray system. It is to the southwest of the larger Ching-Te, and west of the Taurus-Littrow valley where Apollo 17 landed in 1972.

The name of the crater was approved by the IAU in 1976.^[1]

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