Maurolycus 42.0°S,14.0°E

Faraday 42.4°S, 8.7°E

Stöfler 41.1°S, 6.0°E

These three craters form an impressive triplet for any size of instrument. Maurolycus and Stöfler were classed, on old Moon maps, as walled plains because of their size, and Faraday as a crater. The whole region around these craters in the southern highlands shows how violently and chaotically the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), more than 4 billion years ago, restructured the landscape through numerous impacts following one another in time, and superimposed on one another in space.

Maurolycus is an enormous complex crater with a diameter of 114 km, terraced inner walls and a central peak. The crest of the wall lies about 4.7 km above the crater's floor. The extent of the shadows shows that Naurolycus is the deepest of the three craters. The northwestern crater wall has been breached by Maurolycus F, and on the crater's floor there are the smaller craters Maurolycus M, J and A.

Faraday, probably the youngest of the three craters has a diameter of 69 km and a wall height of about 4 km. It lies in the centre of the three craters. The crater wall has been breached by three large, conspicuous craters, with Faraday A on the northeastern wall, and Faraday P and C on the southwestern wall.

Stöfler is a very large complex crater, with a diameter of 126 km and a depth of 2.7 km. Visual observations show a few small craters on the crater's floor, but large instruments reveal dozens of craterlets and pits.