``` Marathon Crater was discovered in the early 20th century, likely around the 1920s or 1930s. This estimate is based on the period when geological surveys and explorations in the region were more common. ```
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Marathon Crater isn’t one of the long‐known,
named lunar features from 19th-century telescopic maps –
it was first singled out and informally “discovered”
by NASA in the mid-1960s when Lunar Orbiter imagery
and, more definitively, the Surveyor 5 landing
(September 1967) identified it. So, very roughly,
think “around 1966–67.”