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Small, fresh unnamed crater
 
A very young, fresh impact crater (3 km diameter) on the western limb of the Moon near the crater Sylvester.

Credit: ISRO/NASA/JHUAPL/LPI

A very young, fresh impact crater (3 kilometers [nearly 2 miles] in diameter) on the western limb of the moon near the crater Sylvester, taken by the Mini-SAR instrument aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. Fresh features on the moon display “radar bright” (i.e., high backscatter) material around them. This is caused by the presence of very fresh ejecta, which includes many angular blocks and rough material. These deposits are the cause of high radar backscatter.

 
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