title: Valera (crater)
text: # Valera (crater)
  
  Valera is a tiny crater on the Moon. It is near the site where Soviet lunar rover Lunokhod 1 landed in November 1970, in the Mare Imbrium region. Its diameter is 0.13 km. The name Valera does not refer to a specific person; it is a Russian male name, a diminutive form of Valery.
  
  * Valera is one of twelve named craters near the landing site, located in the northwest of Mare Imbrium
  * LRO image
  