A further short hop south brings us to Petavius, another prominent crater. Petavius has a particularly wide terraced rim in relation to the width of the crater as a whole. The crater floor has been mostly filled by lava-flow but the multiple central peaks are clearly visible and rise up to 1.7km above the new crater floor. There is also a deep fracture that runs south-west from the central peak, which may be the whitish line visible in the picture:
You may recognise the crater at the top of the image as Vendelinus, one of the subjects of the previous post. Before the clouds got the better of me I managed to grab a 30 second video of Petavius at higher magnification. Not surprisingly the resultant image isn't great but here it is anyway:
For completeness here is a labelled version of the low magnification image:
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