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| x Olympus Mons |
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Mars | Mountain | 18 |
Olympus Mons (Latin for Mount Olympus) is a large volcanic mountain on the planet Mars. By one measure it has a height of nearly 22 km (14 mi); the tallest mountain on any planet in the Solar System, almost three times as tall as Mount Everest's...
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| x Tharsis |
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Mars | Volcanic plateau |
The Tharsis region on Mars is a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in Mars’ western hemisphere. The region is home to the largest volcanoes in the Solar System, including the three enormous shield volcanoes Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and...
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| x Oberth | Moon | Impact crater |
Oberth is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the high northern latitudes, to the southeast of the crater Gamow. To the east of Oberth is Avogadro.
This is a slightly eroded crater with a roughly circular but uneven outer rim. A pair of...
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| x Mare Anguis |
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Moon | Lunar mare |
Mare Anguis (the "serpent sea") is a lunar mare located on the near side of the Moon, about 150 kilometers in diameter. Located within the Crisium basin, Mare Anguis is a part of the Nectarian System, meaning that it was formed during the Nectarian...
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| x Vallis Schröteri |
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Moon | Rille |
Schroter's Valley, frequently known by the Latinized name Vallis Schröteri, is a sinuous valley or rille on the surface of the near side of the Moon. It is located on a rise of continental ground, sometimes called the Aristarchus plateau, that is...
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| x Tracy's Rock |
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Moon | Rock |
Tracy's Rock, known as Split Rock or the Station 6 Boulder in the scientific literature, is a large boulder visited by the Apollo 17 crew on December 13, 1972 at their Taurus-Littrow landing site. "Tracy's Rock" is its popular name.
Scientist...
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| x Valles Marineris |
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Mars | Valley |
Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system of canyons that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. At more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up...
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| x Arsia Mons |
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Mars | Mountain | -8.4 |
Arsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. To its north is Pavonis Mons, and north of that is Ascraeus Mons. The tallest mountain in the solar...
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| x Ascraeus Mons |
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Mars | Mountain | 11.9 |
Ascraeus Mons is a large shield volcano located in the Tharsis region of the planet Mars. It is the northernmost and tallest of three shield volcanoes collectively known as the Tharsis Montes. The volcano's location corresponds to the classical...
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| x Elysium Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Elysium Planitia is the second largest volcanic region on Mars, after Tharsis Montes. It is centered at 2°00′N 155°00′E / 2.0°N 155.0°E / 2.0; 155.0. It includes volcanoes, from north to south, Hecates Tholus, Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus....
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| x Amazonis Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Amazonis Planitia is one of the smoothest plains on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic provinces to the west of Olympus Mons in the Valles Marineris region of the Memnonia quadrangle, centered at 24°48′N 196°00′E / 24.8°N...
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| x Diyar Planitia |
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Enceladus | Planitia |
Diyar Planitia is a region of relatively un-cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Enceladus. It is located at 0.5° North Latitude, 239.7° West Longitude and is approximately 311 km across.
Images from the Voyager probes could not resolve whether Diyar...
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| x Hellas Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Hellas Planitia, also known as the Hellas Impact Basin, is a huge, roughly circular impact basin located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. It is the second or third largest impact crater and the largest visible impact crater known in...
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| x Chryse Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Chryse Planitia (Greek, "Golden Plain") is a smooth circular plain in the northern equatorial region of Mars close to the Tharsis region to the west, centered at 26°42′N 320°00′E / 26.7°N 320.0°E / 26.7; 320.0. Chryse Planitia lies partially in...
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| x Utopia Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Utopia Planitia (Latin: "Nowhere Plain") is the largest recognized impact basin on Mars with an estimated diameter of 3300 km, and is the Martian region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on September 3, 1976. It is located...
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| x Argyre Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Argyre Planitia is a plain located in the Argyre impact basin in the southern highlands of Mars. Its name comes from a map produced by Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877; it refers to Argyre, a mythical island of silver in Greek mythology.
Argyre lies...
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| x Isidis Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Isidis Planitia is a plain located inside a giant impact basin on Mars, centered at 12°54′N 87°00′E / 12.9°N 87.0°E / 12.9; 87.0. It is the third biggest impact structure on the planet after the Hellas and Argyre basins – it is about 1500 km in...
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| x Acidalia Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Acidalia Planitia is a plain on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis volcanic province and Arabia Terra to the north of Valles Marineris, centered at 46°42′N 338°00′E / 46.7°N 338.0°E / 46.7; 338.0. The plain contains the famous Cydonia region...
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| x Ius Chasma |
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Chasma |
Ius Chasma is a large canyon in the Coprates quadrangle of Mars at 7° south latitude and 85.8° west longitude. It is about 938 km long and was named after a classical albedo feature name.
Ius Chasma is a major part of Valles Marineris, the largest...
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| x Tithonium Chasma |
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Chasma |
Tithonium Chasma is a large canyon in the Coprates quadrangle of Mars at 4.6° south latitude and 84.7° west longitude. It is about 810 km long and was named after a classical albedo feature name.
Tithonium Chasma is a major part of the largest...
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| x Ithaca Chasma |
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Chasma |
Ithaca Chasma is a valley (graben) on Saturn's moon Tethys, named after the island of Ithaca, in Greece. It is up to 100 km wide, 3 to 5 km deep and 2,000 km long, running approximately three-quarters of the way around Tethys' circumference, making...
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| x Candor Chasma |
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Mars | Chasma |
Candor Chasma is one of the largest canyons in the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. The feature is geographically divided into two halves: East and West Candor Chasmas, respectively. It is unclear how the canyon originally formed; one theory...
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| x Echus Chasma | Mars | Chasma |
Echus Chasma is a chasma in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. Clay has been found in Echus Chasma that means that water once sat there for a time.
Echus Chasma is approximately 100 km long and 10 km...
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| x Eos Chasma |
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Mars | Chasma |
Eos Chasma is a chasma in the southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars.
Eos Chasma’s western floor is mainly composed of an etched massive material composed of either volcanic or eolian deposits later eroded by the Martian wind....
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| x Ganges Chasma | Mars | Chasma |
The Ganges Chasma is a deep canyon at the eastern end of the vast Valles Marineris system on Mars, an offshoot of Eos Chasma. It is named after the River Ganges in South Asia. It has been tentatively identified as an outflow channel.
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| x Melas Chasma |
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Mars | Chasma |
Melas Chasma is a canyon on Mars, the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon system, located east of Ius Chasma at 9.8°S, 283.6°E. It cuts through layered deposits that are thought to be sediments from an old lake that resulted from runoff of...
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| x Rupes Altai | Moon | Rupes |
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, and is the most prominent lunar escarpment. The selenographic coordinates of this...
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| x Rupes Nigra |
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Rupes |
The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a 33-mile-wide magnetic island of black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the North Pole itself. It purportedly explained why all compasses point to this location. The...
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| x Discovery Rupes |
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Mercury | Rupes |
Discovery Rupes is an escarpment on Mercury approximately 650 kilometers (400 mi) long and 2 kilometers (6,562 feet) high, located at latitude 56.3 S and longitude 38.3 W. It was formed by a thrust fault, thought to have occurred due to the...
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| x Victoria Rupes | Mercury | Rupes |
Victoria Rupes is an escarpment at 50.9°N, 31.1°W in the Victoria quadrangle of Mercury. The quadrangle was named after this escarpment, and the escarpment itself was named after a ship belonging to the famous expedition of Ferdinand Magellan.
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| x Rupes Recta |
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Moon | Rupes |
Rupes Recta is a linear fault, or rille, on the Moon, in the southeastern part of the Mare Nubium at 22°06′S 7°48′W / 22.1°S 7.8°W / -22.1; -7.8. The name is Latin for "Straight Fault", although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall. This...
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| x Verona Rupes |
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Rupes |
Verona Rupes is a cliff on Miranda, a moon of Uranus. The cliff face has been estimated to be from 5 kilometers (3 mi) to 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) high, which makes it the tallest known cliff in the solar system.
It may have been created by a major...
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| x Claritas Rupes |
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Mars | Rupes |
Claritas Rupes is a scarp in the Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle of Mars, located at 26° South and 105.4° West. It is 924 km long and was named after an albedo feature at 25S, 110W.
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| x Athabasca Vallis |
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Mars | Vallis |
Athabasca Valles is an outflow channel on Mars, cut into its surface by catastrophic flooding. It is one of the youngest known of these structures, probably forming only in the geologically recent past of Mars. The flood produced distinctive ...
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| x Ares Vallis |
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Mars | Vallis |
Ares Vallis is an outflow channel on Mars, named after the Greek name for Mars: Ares, the god of war; it appears to have been carved by fluids, perhaps water. The valley 'flows' northwest out of the hilly Margaritifer Terra, where the Iani Chaos...
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| x Vallis Snellius | Moon | Vallis |
Vallis Snellius is a linear valley on the near side of the Moon. It is located in the rugged southeastern part of the visible surface, to the south of the Mare Fecunditatis. This feature is radial to the Mare Nectaris basin to the west-northwest,...
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| x Vallis Bouvard | Moon | Vallis |
Vallis Bouvard is a 284-km-long valley on the Moon, centered at 38°18′S 83°06′W / 38.3°S 83.1°W / -38.3; -83.1. It begins at the southern rim of the crater Shaler, and winds its way to the south-southeast towards Baade. This is one of several...
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| x Vallis Schrödinger |
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Moon | Vallis |
Vallis Schrödinger (latin for "Schrödinger Valley") is a long, nearly linear valley that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is oriented radially to the huge Schrödinger basin and most likely was formed during the original impact that created...
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| x Airy-0 |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Airy-0 is a crater on Mars whose location defines the position of the prime meridian of that planet. It is about 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) across and lies within the larger crater Airy in the region Sinus Meridiani.
It was named in honor of the...
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| x Airy |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Airy is an impact crater on Mars, named in honor of the British Astronomer, Royal Sir George Biddell Airy (1801–1892). The crater is approximately 40 kilometers in diameter and is located at 0.1°E 5.1°S in the Meridiani Planum region. The much...
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| x Hun Kal |
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Mercury | Impact crater |
Hun Kal is a small crater on Mercury that serves as the reference point for the planet's system of longitude. The longitude of Hun Kal's center is defined as being 20° W, thus establishing the planet's prime meridian.
Hun Kal was chosen as a...
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| x Alpha Regio |
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Venus |
Alpha Regio is a region of the planet Venus extending for about 1500 kilometers centered at 22°S, 5°E.
It was discovered and named by Dick Goldstein in 1964. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary...
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| x Bruce |
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Moon | Impact crater |
Bruce is a small lunar impact crater located in the Sinus Medii. It lies to the west-northwest of the irregular crater Rhaeticus, and just to the west of the even smaller Blagg.
This feature is circular and cup-shaped, with no notable impacts...
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| x Mons Pico | Moon | 45.7 |
Mons Pico is a solitary lunar mountain that lies in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium basin, and to the south of the dark-floored crater Plato. This peak forms part of the surviving inner ring of the Imbrium basin. This ring continues to the...
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| x Mare Imbrium |
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Moon | Lunar mare | 32.8 |
Mare Imbrium (Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains"), is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon. One of the larger craters in the Solar System, Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large...
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| x Goeppert-Mayer |
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Venus | Impact crater |
Goeppert-Mayer is a crater on the planet Venus. It is 35 kilometers (22 mi) in diameter and lies above an escarpment at the edge of a ridge belt in Southern Ishtar Terra. West of the crater the scarp has more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) of relief....
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| x Rupes Cauchy |
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Moon |
Rupes Cauchy is a 120km-long escarpment at 9°00′N 37°00′E / 9.0°N 37.0°E / 9.0; 37.0 on the surface of the Moon. It faces southwest, and rises about 200-300 m. It is located in the northeastern portion of the Mare Tranquillitatis, and is named...
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| x Lunar dome |
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Moon |
A lunar dome is a type of shield volcano that is found on the surface of the Earth's Moon. They are typically formed by highly viscous, possibly silica-rich lava, erupting from localized vents followed by relatively slow cooling. Lunar domes are...
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| x Fra Mauro formation |
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Moon |
The Fra Mauro formation (or Fra Mauro Highlands) is a lunar geological formation on the near side of the Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 14 mission in 1971. It is named after the 80-kilometer-diameter crater Fra Mauro,...
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| x Rupes Kelvin |
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Moon |
Rupes Kelvin is an escarpment near Promontorium Kelvin (after which it is named), at 27°18′S 33°06′W / 27.3°S 33.1°W / -27.3; -33.1. It is 78.0 km long.
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| x Terra Nivium |
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Moon |
Terra Nivium (Latin for "Land of Snows") is a roughly triangular highland region on the Moon. In his Almagestum novum, the notable selenographer Giovanni Riccioli named the various highland regions terrae. However, unlike his naming scheme for...
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| x Peak of Eternal Light | Moon |
Peak of Eternal Light (PEL) describes a point on a body within the Solar System which is always in sunlight. Such a peak must have high altitude, and be on a body with very small axial tilt. The existence of such peaks was first postulated by Beer...
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| x Reiner Gamma |
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Moon |
Reiner Gamma (γ) is an albedo feature that is located on the Oceanus Procellarum, to the west of the crater Reiner on the Moon. The center of the formation is located at selenographic coordinates 7°30′N 59°00′W / 7.5°N 59.0°W / 7.5; -59.0. It has...
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| x Rille |
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Moon |
Rille (German for 'groove') is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the lunar surface that resemble channels. Typically a rille can be up to several kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers in length. However, the term...
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| x Rima Ariadaeus |
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Moon |
Rima Ariadaeus is a linear rille on the Moon at 6°24′N 14°00′E / 6.4°N 14.0°E / 6.4; 14.0. It is named after the crater Ariadaeus, which marks its eastern end. Over 300 kilometers long, it is thought to have been formed when a section of the Moon...
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| x Rimae Aristarchus | Moon |
The Rimea Aristarchus is a system of narrow sinuous rilles to the north of the Aristarchus crater. They extend for a distance of 121 km.
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| x Rimae Fresnel | Moon |
Rimae Fresnel is a 90km-long arcurate escarpment on the Moon at 28°00′N 4°00′E / 28.0°N 4.0°E / 28.0; 4.0. Both the escarpment and the nearby Promontorium Fresnel were named after the mathematician Augustin Jean Fresnel.
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| x Rimae Sirsalis | Moon |
Rimae Sirsalis is a lunar rille. It is located at 15°42′S 61°42′W / 15.7°S 61.7°W / -15.7; -61.7 and is 426 km long. It was formed by extension of the surface, possibly due to dike propagation in the subsurface.
Rimae Sirsalis cuts across...
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| x South Pole-Aitken basin |
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Moon | Impact crater |
The South Pole–Aitken basin is a huge impact crater on the far side of Earth's Moon. Roughly 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) in diameter and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) deep, it is one of the largest known impact craters in the Solar System. It is the...
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