Pons is an 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 is located to the west of the prominent Rupes Altai

Rupes Altai

Rupes Altai is an escarpment in the lunar surface that is located in the southeastern quadrant of the Moon's near side. It is named for the Altai Mountains in Asia. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are , and it has a length of about 427 km....

 scarp

Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

. It lies to the southeast of the crater Sacrobosco

Sacrobosco (crater)

Sacrobosco is an irregular lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands to the west of the Rupes Altai escarpment. It is a readily identified feature due to the three circular craters that lie on its floor. The rim of Sacrobosco is heavily worn and eroded, especially in the...

, and southwest of Polybius

Polybius (crater)

Polybius is a lunar impact crater in the southeast part of the Moon. It is located to the south-southeast of the larger crater Catharina, in the area framed by the Rupes Altai scarp...

. To the northwest along the same flank of the formation is the crater Fermat

Fermat (crater)

Fermat is a lunar impact crater located to the west of the Rupes Altai escarpment. To the west-southwest is the larger crater Sacrobosco, and to the southwest is the irregular Pons. It is 39 kilometers in diameter and two kilometers deep....

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The rim of Pons is somewhat elongated in shape, being longer along a northeast-southwest axis than in the perpendicular direction. The outer wall is irregular and notched, particularly at the northeastern end where it is partly overlain by the satellite crater Pons D and multiple smaller formations. The interior is uneven, with low ridges projecting from the north and southeastern rims.

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 Pons.

Pons	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	27.3° S	20.0° E	12 km
B	28.7° S	20.7° E	13 km
C	27.9° S	22.3° E	18 km
D	25.5° S	22.1° E	15 km
E	25.8° S	23.8° E	18 km
F	23.7° S	21.2° E	12 km
G	28.3° S	21.4° E	6 km
H	26.9° S	22.3° E	10 km
J	24.9° S	22.2° E	5 km
K	27.4° S	22.8° E	7 km
L	27.5° S	20.9° E	8 km
M	27.1° S	24.1° E	11 km
N	26.0° N	23.0° E	6 km
P	25.0° N	23.1° E	5 km