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Jeans is a lunar impact crater, on the southeastern limb of the Moon, with its majority lying on the far side. A favorable libration can bring the entire crater into view, but even then the details observable from Earth are very limited as the crater is viewed rather "edge-on".
Jeans is located nearly midway between the much larger walled plain Lyot on the near side and the crater Chamberlin on the far side. It has a heavily worn and rounded outer rim, and several impacts lie along the southern and southeastern edge and inner wall. The most prominent of these intersecting craters are Jeans G across the eastern rim. The interior floor of the main crater has been resurfaced by basaltic lava, leaving a dark level surface marked only by a few tiny craterlets.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Jeans.
{| class="wikitable"
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Jeans
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Latitude
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Longitude
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Diameter
|-
|align="center"|B
|align="center"|52.4° S
|align="center"|94.8° E
|align="center"|11 km
|-
|align="center"|G
|align="center"|56.0° S
|align="center"|93.3° E
|align="center"|22 km
|-
|align="center"|N
|align="center"|58.7° S
|align="center"|90.5° E
|align="center"|64 km
|-
|align="center"|S
|align="center"|56.8° S
|align="center"|86.8° E
|align="center"|56 km
|-
|align="center"|U
|align="center"|54.7° S
|align="center"|86.5° E
|align="center"|57 km
|-
|align="center"|X
|align="center"|53.5° S
|align="center"|89.4° E
|align="center"|44 km
|-
|align="center"|Y
|align="center"|51.2° S
|align="center"|90.5° E
|align="center"|17 km
|}