Lacroix is a 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 is located in the southwest part of the Moon

Moon

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, to the northwest of the large walled plain Schickard

Schickard (crater)

Schickard is a lunar impact crater of the form called a walled plain. It lies in the southwest sector of the Moon, near the lunar limb. As a result the crater appears oblong due to foreshortening. Attached to the northern rim is the lesser crater Lehmann, and to the northeast is the even smaller...

. The most notable feature of this crater is the smaller crater Lacroix J that overlies the southern rim. The surviving rim of Lacroix is nearly circular, with a slightly worn inner wall. The interior floor is relatively featureless.

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 Lacroix.

Lacroix	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	35.1° S	55.2° W	13 km
B	37.0° S	60.4° W	8 km
E	40.0° S	62.9° W	19 km
F	40.7° S	61.6° W	15 km
G	36.7° S	59.1° W	47 km
H	38.6° S	57.8° W	13 km
J	38.4° S	59.3° W	18 km
K	35.2° S	57.7° W	45 km
L	35.7° S	58.3° W	8 km
M	36.0° S	56.9° W	13 km
N	37.2° S	57.8° W	14 km
P	35.2° S	53.7° W	9 km
R	34.5° S	60.1° W	19 km