Exciting Naming Developments for Craters on the Moon: Marvin Crater

Unnamed lunar craters are being named after notable women and minority scientists in an effort to recognize the crucial importance of both women and underrepresented groups to the fields of scientific exploration.

While mapping potential Artemis landing sites in the lunar south polar region, the SSERVI Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE) team encountered several unnamed craters and quickly realized that additional crater names were needed to facilitate the discussion of plans to explore the region.

Marvin Crater: Named after Ursula B. Marvin, who was one of Dr Kring’s mentors (Dr Kring is a Barringer Crater Scientific Advisor) at Harvard University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics. She was a President of the Meteoritical Society. A few words about her are posted on the NASA SSERVI link. Please find the New York Times obituary that Dr Kring helped arrange when she passed a few years ago.