Mills (crater)
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Mills is a small 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 lies on the far side of the Moon
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. It is located to the northeast of Henderson
Henderson (crater)
Henderson is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the east of the huge walled plain Mendeleev. This is a worn crater with a shallow rim. No significant craters overlie the rim or interior, but a smaller, worn crater is attached to the southern outer rim. A ridge of material runs...

 and to the south of Kohlschütter
Kohlschütter (crater)
Kohlschütter is a lunar crater that cannot be viewed directly from the Earth as it lies on the Moon's far side. It is located a couple of hundred kilometers to the southeast of the Mare Moscoviense, and due south of the smaller crater Nagaoka...

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This is an undistinguished impact crater that is roughly circular in form, with a slight outward bulge to the northwest. This bulge may be due to the merger of a smaller impact with the rim. The rim edge is somewhat worn, with indistinct features and a few tiny craterlets along the edge. The interior floor has a ridge of material protruding inwards from the southern inner wall, but is otherwise marked only by a number of tiny craters.

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 Mills.
Mills Latitude Longitude Diameter
B 10.7° N 156.9° E 24 km
C 9.8° N 157.3° E 14 km
K 6.8° N 157.0° E 26 km
R 8.1° N 154.8° E 19 km
W 10.0° N 154.2° E 18 km
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