Lade is the remains of a lunar

Moon

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 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...

 that has been flooded by lava

Lava

Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...

. To the north is the crater Godin

Godin (crater)

Godin is a lunar impact crater located just to the south of the crater Agrippa, on a rough upland region to the east of Sinus Medii. The ruined crater Tempel lies to the northeast, on the east side of Agrippa. Due south is the flooded remains of Lade....

, and in the south-southeast is the worn, lava-flooded Saunder

Saunder (crater)

Saunder is a lunar crater located in the central highland region of the Moon, to the east-northeast of the walled plain Hipparchus. The outer wall is irregular and broken in several locations, forming the overall shape of a pentagon. The interior of Saunder has been flooded with lava, forming a...

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The southern rim of Lade has been completely covered or destroyed, and there are gaps in the relatively thin southeast rim. The surviving crater wall is worn and somewhat hexagonal in outline. There is a smaller bowl-shaped crater attached to the interior of the western rim. To the north the crater designated Lade B has been completely filled with lava.

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 Lade.

Lade	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	0.2° S	12.9° E	57 km
B	0.1° N	9.8° E	24 km
D	0.9° S	13.7° E	16 km
E	1.9° S	13.0° E	21 km
M	1.1° S	9.4° E	12 km
S	1.2° S	8.3° E	24 km
T	1.0° S	9.0° E	18 km
U	0.1° S	9.6° E	4 km
V	0.2° S	9.1° E	4 km
W	0.2° N	8.6° E	4 km
X	1.7° S	11.0° E	3 km