Sherlock is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove their rover to the north of it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission.
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Location of Sherlock crater in Taurus-Littrow Valley
Scale bar is 5 km | |
Diameter | 520 m[1] |
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Eponym | Astronaut-named feature |
Sherlock is about 1 km east of the Apollo 17 landing site. To the south of it is Steno crater and to the north are Van Serg and Shakespeare.