| Raw model I got Marathon Crater isn’t one of the long‐known,
named lunar features from 19th-century telescopic maps –
it was first singled out and informally “discovered”
by NASA in the mid-1960s when Lunar Orbiter imagery
and, more definitively, the Surveyor 5 landing
(September 1967) identified it. So, very roughly,
think “around 1966–67.”
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