Nishina is the remnant of a lunarcrater named after the Japanese scientist Yoshio Nishina that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the south-southwest of Maksutov crater, to the southeast of Finsen crater and the Leibnitz walled-plain.
The rim of this formation has been eroded, worn-down, and reshaped by a history of impacts, leaving an irregular, indented perimeter surrounding the crater floor. The interior of the formation has been resurfaced by basalticlava, leaving a level, nearly featureless surface that contains no impacts of note. Whie the interior surface has a low albedo and appears dark, it has been coated by ray material which has produced lighter patches to the southwest and northeast.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Nishina crater.
Maksutov is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon.
To the southwest lies the Nishinacrater, and to the west-northwest is the merged Davisson-Leibnitz crater formations.
The inner wall of the rim varies in width, with the narrowest portion lying in the southeast, while wider sections lie along the remaining edges, particularly to the northeast and northwest.
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