Ching-Te is a tiny lunar

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...

 impact crater

Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 located in a mountainous area to the east of the Mare Serenitatis

Mare Serenitatis

Mare Serenitatis is a lunar mare that sits just to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon.It is located within the Serenitatis basin, which is of the Nectarian epoch. The material surrounding the mare is of the Lower Imbrian epoch, while the mare material is of the Upper Imbrian epoch...

. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation with no distinguishing features. To the south-southeast is the crater Fabbroni

Fabbroni (crater)

Fabbroni is a small lunar impact crater that lies along the northern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis, at the eastern edge of the gap where the lunar mare joins Mare Serenitatis to the north. To the southeast is the crater Vitruvius...

, and to the northeast is Littrow

Littrow (crater)

Littrow is a lunar crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, on the east edge of Mare Serenitatis. Some distance to the northeast is the prominent crater Römer, while to the south is Vitruvius....

. North of Ching-Te is the Rimae Littrow rille system

Rille

Rille is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the lunar surface that resemble channels. Typically a rille can be up to several kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers in length...

 as well as the crater Clerke

Clerke (crater)

Clerke is a tiny lunar crater. It is located near the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis in the midst of a rille system named the Rimae Littrow after the crater Littrow to the east. Clerke is roughly circular and cup-shaped, with a relatively high albedo...

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In a valley about 20 kilometers to the east is the landing site of the Apollo 17

Apollo 17

Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the...

 expedition.

Between Ching-Te and Mons Argaeus

Mons Argaeus

Mons Argaeus is a mountainous massif on the Moon that extends for a length of 50 km towards the southeast. It is located at selenographic coordinates 19.0°N, 29.0°E, in the mountainous southeastern border of the Mare Serenitatis...

 to the southwest lies a tiny crater that has been designated Stella by the IAU

International Astronomical Union

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. The crater appellation is a Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 feminine name, and, as with Ching-Te, is not named after any specific individual. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 19.9° N, 29.8° E, and it has a diameter of 1 km.