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Valleys

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surface is covered in many interesting features. Among these are several large valley

Valley

In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys...

s that have been given names. These are listed below.

Most of these valleys are named after a nearby 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...

; see the list of craters on the Moon for more information.

Valley	Coordinates Selenographic coordinates Selenographic coordinates are used to refer to locations on the surface of Earth's moon. Any position on the lunar surface can be referenced by specifying two numerical values, which are comparable to the latitude and longitude of Earth...	Dimension	Eponym Eponym An eponym is the name of a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named...	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...
Vallis Alpes Vallis Alpes Vallis Alpes is a lunar valley feature that bisects the Montes Alpes range. It extends 166 km from the Mare Imbrium basin, trending east-northeast to the edge of the Mare Frigoris. The valley is narrow at both ends and widens to a maximum width of about 10 km along the middle stretch...	48.5°N 3.2°E	166 km	Latin Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and... name meaning "Alpine valley"	None
Vallis Baade Vallis Baade Vallis Baade is a 203 km long sinuous valley on the Moon running south-southeast from the crater Baade and centered at...	45.9°S 76.2°W	203 km	Walter Baade Walter Baade Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade was a German astronomer who worked in the USA from 1931 to 1959.-Biography:He took advantage of wartime blackout conditions during World War II, which reduced light pollution at Mount Wilson Observatory, to resolve stars in the center of the Andromeda galaxy for the...	Baade Baade (crater) Baade is a lunar impact crater that is located near the southwest limb of the Moon on the near side, to the southwest of the enormous Mare Orientale impact basin. The area to the east of this crater forms the junction between the 280-km-long Vallis Bouvard to the north and the narrower,...
Vallis Bohr Vallis Bohr Vallis Bohr is a valley on the Moon stretching due south of the crater Einstein. This wide cleft has a length of about 80 kilometers, and is radial to the Mare Orientale impact basin further to the south. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are ....	12.4°N 86.6°W	80 km	Niels Bohr Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...	Bohr Bohr (crater) Bohr is a lunar crater that is located near the western lunar limb, in the area that is affected by librations. It is attached to the southwestern rim of the larger, eroded Vasco da Gama formation, and to the southeast of the crater Einstein....
Vallis Bouvard Vallis Bouvard Vallis Bouvard is a 284-km-long valley on the Moon, centered at . 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 such valleys that radiate away from the southeast edge of the Mare Orientale circular impact basin,...	38.3°S 83.1°W	284 km	Alexis Bouvard Alexis Bouvard Alexis Bouvard was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system.-Life:...	None
Vallis Capella	7.6°S 34.9°E	49 km	Martianus Capella Martianus Capella Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a pagan writer of Late Antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education...	Capella Capella (crater) Capella is a lunar crater in diameter that lies to the north of the Mare Nectaris, in a rugged region with many small impact craters. It intrudes slightly into the eastern rim of the crater Isidorus, a feature only slightly smaller in diameter....
Vallis Inghirami	43.8°S 72.2°W	148 km	Giovanni Inghirami Giovanni Inghirami Giovanni Inghirami was an Italian astronomer, and a Piarist religious. There is a valley on the moon named after him as well as a crater.-Life:...	Inghirami Inghirami (crater) Inghirami is a lunar impact crater that is located toward the southwestern limb of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the large walled plain Schickard. Northwest of Inghirami is the wide Vallis Inghirami, a wide, straight valley that is radial to the Mare Orientale impact basin...
Vallis Palitzsch	26.4°S 64.3°E	132 km	Johann Palitzsch	Palitzsch Palitzsch (crater) Palitzsch is a lunar crater that is located in the southeast part of the Moon, near the southeast rim of the crater Petavius. Just to the southwest of Palitzsch is Hase, while to the east-southeast is Legendre....
Vallis Planck Vallis Planck Vallis Planck is a long, linear valley located on the far side of the Moon. It is oriented radially to the huge Schrödinger basin, and was most likely formed by that impact...	58.4°S 126.1°E	451 km	Max Planck Max Planck Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...	Planck Planck (crater) Planck is a huge lunar crater that is located in the southern hemisphere of the Moon, on the far side as seen from the Earth. It lies to the west of the walled plain Poincaré, another enormous formation only slightly larger than Planck. Both formations are larger than the walled plain Bailly, the...
Vallis Rheita Vallis Rheita Vallis Rheita is a linear valley on the near side of the Moon. It is located in the southeastern quadrant, and is oriented radially to Mare Nectaris. This valley appears to share a common origin with the Vallis Snellius to the northeast, as both are oriented radially with Mare Nectaris.The center...	42.5°S 51.5°E	445 km	Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita was an astronomer and optician. He developed several inverting and erecting eyepieces, and was the maker of Kepler’s telescope...	Rheita Rheita (crater) Rheita is a lunar impact crater located in the southwestern sector of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the crater Metius, and northwest of Young. The southwestern rim overlies the edge of Vallis Rheita, a long lunar valley stretching for over 200 kilometers on a line running northeast to...
Vallis Schrödinger Vallis Schrödinger Vallis Schrödinger 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 Schrödinger....	67.0°S 105.0°E	310 km	Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933...	Schrödinger Schrödinger (crater) Schrödinger is a huge lunar impact crater of the form traditionally called a walled plain and is named after Erwin Schrödinger. It is located near the south lunar pole on the far side of the Moon, and can only be viewed from orbit. The smaller crater Ganswindt is attached to the southwestern rim of...
Vallis Schröteri Vallis Schröteri 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 surrounded by the Oceanus Procellarum to the south...	26.2°N 50.8°W	168 km	Johann Hieronymus Schröter	Schröter Schröter (lunar crater) Schröter is a lunar crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum, and named after German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter. It lies to the north of the craters Sömmering and Mösting. To the southeast of the crater rim is a rille named the Rima Schröter...
Vallis Snellius Vallis Snellius 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, much like Vallis Rheita to the southwest, and the...	31.1°S 56.0°E	592 km	Willebrord Snell	Snellius Snellius (crater) Snellius is a lunar crater located near the southeast limb of the Moon. Because of foreshortening the crater appears oval in shape, although it is actually nearly round. To the northeast is the large crater Petavius. South of Snellius is the crater Stevinus....

'Water Features'

This is a list of maria
Lunar mare
The lunar maria are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. They were dubbed maria, Latin for "seas", by early astronomers who mistook them for actual seas. They are less reflective than the "highlands" as a result of their iron-rich compositions, and...

(singular mare) on the Moon

Moon

. It also includes the one oceanus and the features known by the names lacus, palus and sinus. The modern system of lunar nomenclature was introduced in 1651 by Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order...

. Riccioli's map of the moon was drawn by Francesco Maria Grimaldi

Francesco Maria Grimaldi

Francesco Maria Grimaldi was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna....

, who has a crater named after him.

Maria and Oceanus

Lunar Maria
Mare Anguis Mare Anguis Mare Anguis 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 time period. Like most mare, the surface of Mare Anguis is dark,...	Serpent Sea	22.6° N	67.7° E	150 km
Mare Australe Mare Australe Mare Australe is a lunar mare located in the southeastern hemisphere of the Moon. It is 603 kilometers in diameter, overlapping the near and far sides of the Moon. Smooth, dark volcanic basalt lines the bottom of the mare...	Southern Sea	38.9° S	93.0° E	603 km
Mare Cognitum Mare Cognitum Mare Cognitum is a lunar mare located in a basin or large crater which sits in the second ring of the Procellarum basin. The basin material is of the Lower Imbrian epoch, while the basaltic mare material is of the Upper Imbrian epoch...	Sea that has become known	10.0° S	23.1° W	376 km
Mare Crisium Mare Crisium Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. This basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago. This mare is in diameter, and 176,000 km2 in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridges...	Sea of Crisis	17.0° N	59.1° E	418 km
Mare Fecunditatis Mare Fecunditatis Mare Fecunditatis is a lunar mare which is 840 km in diameter. The Fecuditatis basin formed in the Pre-Nectarian epoch, while the basin material surrounding the mare is of the...	Sea of Fecundity	7.8° S	51.3° E	909 km
Mare Frigoris Mare Frigoris Mare Frigoris is a lunar mare located just north of Mare Imbrium, and stretches east to north of Mare Serenitatis. The mare is in the outer rings of the Procellarum basin...	Sea of Cold	56.0° N	1.4° E	1596 km
Mare Humboldtianum Mare Humboldtianum Mare Humboldtianum is a lunar mare located within the Humboldtianum basin, just to the east of Mare Frigoris. It is located along the northeastern limb of the Moon, and continues on to the far side...	Sea of Alexander von Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...	56.8° N	81.5° E	273 km
Mare Humorum Mare Humorum Mare Humorum is a lunar mare. The impact basin it is located in is 825 kilometers across. It was not sampled by the Apollo program, so a precise age has not been determined. However, geological mapping indicates that it is intermediate in age between the Imbrium and Nectaris Basins, suggesting an...	Sea of Moisture	24.4° S	38.6° W	389 km
Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago...	Sea of Showers	32.8° N	15.6° W	1123 km
Mare Ingenii Mare Ingenii Mare Ingenii is one of the few lunar mare features on the far side of the Moon. The mare sits in the Ingenii basin. This basin material is of the Pre-Nectarian epoch. The mare material located in Ingenii and the surrounding craters is of the Upper Imbrian epoch...	Sea of Cleverness	33.7° S	163.5° E	318 km
Mare Insularum Mare Insularum Mare Insularum is a lunar mare located in the Insularum basin just south of Mare Imbrium. The basin material is of the Lower Imbrian epoch, with the mare material of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The mare is bordered by the craters Copernicus on the east, and Kepler on the west...	Sea of Islands	7.5° N	30.9° W	513 km
Mare Marginis Mare Marginis Mare Marginis is a lunar mare that lies on the very edge of the lunar nearside. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 13.3° N, 86.1° E, and the diameter is 420 km. The name is Latin for "Sea of the Edge"....	Sea of the Edge	13.3° N	86.1° E	420 km
Mare Moscoviense Mare Moscoviense Mare Moscoviense is a lunar mare that sits in the Moscoviense basin. It is one of the very few maria on the far side of the Moon. Like Mare Marginis, this mare appears to be fairly thin. However, it is clearly centered within a large impact basin...	Sea of Muscovy Muscovy (disambiguation) Muscovy is a historical European term for the Principality of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Moscow...	27.3° N	147.9° E	277 km
Mare Nectaris Mare Nectaris The Sea of Nectar is a small lunar mare or sea located between the Sea of Tranquillity and the Sea of Fecundity . Montes Pyrenaeus borders the mare to the west and the large crater near the south center of the mare is known as Rosse...	Sea of Nectar	15.2° S	35.5° E	333 km
Mare Nubium Mare Nubium Mare Nubium is a lunar mare in the Nubium basin on the Moon's near side. The mare is located just to the southeast of Oceanus Procellarum. The actual basin is believed to be of Pre-Nectarian system, with the surrounding basin material being of the Lower Imbrian epoch. The mare material is of the...	Sea of Clouds	21.3° S	16.6° W	715 km
Mare Orientale Mare Orientale Mare Orientale is one of the most striking large scale lunar features, resembling a target ring bull's-eye. Located on the extreme western edge of the lunar nearside, this impact basin is difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective.Material from this basin was not sampled by the Apollo program...	Eastern Sea	19.4° S	92.8° W	327 km
Mare Serenitatis Mare Serenitatis Mare Serenitatis is a lunar mare that sits just to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon.It is located within the Serenitatis basin, which is of the Nectarian epoch. The material surrounding the mare is of the Lower Imbrian epoch, while the mare material is of the Upper Imbrian epoch...	Sea of Serenity	28.0° N	17.5° E	707 km
Mare Smythii Mare Smythii Mare Smythii is a lunar mare located along the equator on the easternmost edge of the lunar near side. The Smythii basin where the mare is located is of the Pre-Nectarian epoch, while the surrounding features are of the Nectarian system...	Sea of William Henry Smyth William Henry Smyth William Henry Smyth was an English sailor, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist.-Private Life:...	1.3° N	87.5° E	373 km
Mare Spumans Mare Spumans Mare Spumans is a lunar mare located just south of Mare Undarum on the lunar near side. It is one of the many elevated lakes contained in the Crisium basin, surrounding Mare Crisium. The surrounding basin material is of the Nectarian epoch, while the mare basalt being of the Upper Imbrian epoch...	Foaming Sea	1.1° N	65.1° E	139 km
Mare Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The mare material within the basin consists of basalt formed in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The surrounding mountains are thought to be of the Lower Imbrian epoch, but...	Sea of Tranquility	8.5° N	31.4° E	873 km
Mare Undarum Mare Undarum Mare Undarum is an uneven lunar mare located just north of Mare Spumans on the lunar near side, between the crater Firmicus and the eastern limb. It is one of the many elevated lakes contained in the Crisium basin, surrounding Mare Crisium. The selenographic coordinates of this mare are 6.8° N,...	Sea of Waves	6.8° N	68.4° E	243 km
Mare Vaporum Mare Vaporum Mare Vaporum is a lunar mare located between the southwest rim of Mare Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium. The lunar material surrounding the mare is from the Lower Imbrian epoch, and the mare material is from the Eratosthenian epoch. The mare lies in an old basin or crater that is...	Sea of Vapors	13.3° N	3.6° E	245 km
Oceanus Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Earth's Moon. Its name derives from the old superstition that its appearance during the second quarter heralded bad weather...	Ocean of Storms	18.4° N	57.4° W	2568 km

There was also a region on the Lunar farside that was briefly misidentified as a mare and named Mare Desiderii
Mare Desiderii
Mare Desiderii was an area of the Moon named after Luna 3 returned the first pictures of the far side. This name is derived from the Russian Море Мечты, Mechta being the original name for the Luna 1 spacecraft....

(Sea of Dreams). It is no longer recognized. Other former maria include:

Mare Parvum ("Small Sea"), immediately to the east of Inghirami
Inghirami (crater)
Inghirami is a lunar impact crater that is located toward the southwestern limb of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the large walled plain Schickard. Northwest of Inghirami is the wide Vallis Inghirami, a wide, straight valley that is radial to the Mare Orientale impact basin...
Mare Incognitum ("Unknown Sea")
Mare Novum ("New Sea"), northeast of Plutarch
Plutarch (crater)
Plutarch is a lunar impact crater that lies near the north-northeastern limb of the Moon, just to the south of the irregular crater Seneca. To the southeast is the flooded crater Cannon...
Mare Struve ("Struve's Sea"), near Messala
Messala (crater)
Messala is a lunar crater of sufficient dimension to belong to the category of impact features known as walled plains. It is located in the northeastern part of the Moon, close enough to the rim to appear significantly foreshortened. Nearly attached to the northern rim is the crater Schumacher...

Lacus

A related set of features are the Lunar lacus (singular lacus, Latin for "lake

Lake

A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

"), which are smaller basaltic plains of similar origin:

Lunar Lacus
Latin Name	English Name	Lat.	Long.	Diameter
Lacus Aestatis Lacus Aestatis Lacus Aestatis consists of two relatively small areas of lunar mare located near the western limb of the Moon. The selenograpic coordinates of this feature are 15.0° S, 69.0° W, and it lies within a diameter of 90 km...	Lake of Summer	15.0° S	69.0° W	90 km
Lacus Autumni Lacus Autumni Lacus Autumni is a region of lunar mare that lies near the western limb of the Moon. Along this side of the lunar surface is a huge impact basin centered on the Mare Orientale. Two concentric mountain rings surround the Orientale mare, the inner ring being named Montes Rook and an outer ring...	Lake of Autumn	9.9° S	83.9° W	183 km
Lacus Bonitatis Lacus Bonitatis Lacus Bonitatis is a small lunar mare that lies to the northwest of the prominent crater Macrobius. Further to the north of Lacus Bonitatis is the Montes Taurus mountain range....	Lake of Goodness	23.2° N	43.7° E	92 km
Lacus Doloris Lacus Doloris Lacus Doloris is a small lunar mare located in the Terra Nivium region at 17.1° N, 9.0° E. It is 110 km in diameter....	Lake of Sorrow	17.1° N	9.0° E	110 km
Lacus Excellentiae Lacus Excellentiae Lacus Excellentiae is a relatively small, irregular lunar mare in the southern latitudes of the Moon, amidst the rugged terrain to the south of the larger Mare Humorum. The most prominent feature within the diameter of this basin is the small crater Clausius.The selenographic coordinates of this...	Lake of Excellence	35.4° S	44.0° W	184 km
Lacus Felicitatis Lacus Felicitatis Lacus Felicitatis is a small patch of the lunar surface that has been inundated by flows of lava, leaving a level patch with a lower albedo than the surrounding ground. It is located in Terra Nivium, an area of continental ground to the north of the Mare Vaporum...	Lake of Happiness	19.0° N	5.0° E	90 km
Lacus Gaudii Lacus Gaudii Lacus Gaudii is a small lunar mare in the Terra Nivium region of the Moon. It is located at 16.2° N, 12.6° E and is 113 km in diameter....	Lake of Joy	16.2° N	12.6° E	113 km
Lacus Hiemalis Lacus Hiemalis Lacus Hiemalis is a small lunar mare in the Terra Nivium region on the Moon. It is located at 15.0° N, 14.0° E and is 50 km in diameter....	Lake of Winter	15.0° N	14.0° E	50 km
Lacus Lenitatis Lacus Lenitatis Lacus Lenitatis is a small lunar mare in the Terra Nivium region on the Moon. It is located at 14.0° N, 12.0° E and is 80 km in diameter....	Lake of Softness	14.0° N	12.0° E	80 km
Lacus Luxuriae Lacus Luxuriae Lacus Luxuriae is a small lunar mare on the Moon. It is located at 19.0° N, 176.0° E and is 50 km in diameter....	Lake of Luxury	19.0° N	176.0° E	50 km
Lacus Mortis Lacus Mortis Lacus Mortis, latin for "Lake of Death", is a plain of basaltic lava flows in the northeastern part of the Moon. It lies just to the south of the elongated Mare Frigoris, being separated by a slender arm of rugged ground...	Lake of Death	45.0° N	27.2° E	151 km
Lacus Oblivionis Lacus Oblivionis Lacus Oblivionis is a small lunar mare on the surface of the Moon. It is located at 21.0° S, 168.0° W and is 50 km in diameter....	Lake of Forgetfulness	21.0° S	168.0° W	50 km
Lacus Odii Lacus Odii Lacus Odii is a small lunar mare in the Terra Nivium region on the Moon. It is located at 19.0° N, 7.0° E and is 70 km in diameter....	Lake of Hatred	19.0° N	7.0° E	70 km
Lacus Perseverantiae Lacus Perseverantiae Lacus Perseverantiae is a small lunar mare extending westward from the northwestern exterior of the crater Firmicus, with smaller extensions to the northeast and northwest at the eastern terminus. Its name is Latin for Lake of Perseverance...	Lake of Perseverance	8.0° N	62.0° E	70 km
Lacus Solitudinis Lacus Solitudinis Lacus Solitudinis is a small lunar mare on the far side of the Moon. The selenographic coordinates of the lake are 27.8° S, 104.3° E, and it lies within a diameter of 139 km. It forms an arcing feature with the concave side oriented to the northwest...	Lake of Solitude	27.8° S	104.3° E	139 km
Lacus Somniorum Lacus Somniorum Lacus Somniorum is a plain located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side. It is located at selenographic coordinates 38.0° N, 29.2° E, and has a diameter of 384 kilometers...	Lake of Dreams	38.0° N	29.2° E	384 km
Lacus Spei Lacus Spei Lacus Spei is a small lunar mare that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side. To the north is the crater Mercurius and to the west-southwest lies Schumacher....	Lake of Hope	43.0° N	65.0° E	80 km
Lacus Temporis Lacus Temporis Lacus Temporis is a small lunar mare that is located in the northeastern quadrant of the Moon's near side. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are , and it lies within a diameter of 117 km....	Lake of Time	45.9° N	58.4° E	117 km
Lacus Timoris Lacus Timoris Lacus Timoris is a small lunar mare on the Moon. It is located at 38.8° S, 27.3° W and is 117 km in diameter. It was discovered in 1976 and its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union at a meeting in Grenoble....	Lake of Fear	38.8° S	27.3° W	117 km
Lacus Veris Lacus Veris Lacus Veris is a small lunar mare on the Moon. In selenographic coordinates, the mare centered at 16.5° S, 86.1° W and lies within a 396 km in diameter. The mare extends along an irregular 90° arc from east to north that is centered on the Mare Orientale, covering an area of about...	Lake of Spring	16.5° S	86.1° W	396 km

Sinus and Paludes

A related set of features are the sinus (singular sinus, Latin for "bay") and paludes (singular palus, Latin for "marsh"):

Lunar Sinus and Paludes
Latin Name	English Name	Lat.	Long.	Diameter
Palus Epidemiarum Palus Epidemiarum Palus Epidemiarum is a small lunar mare in the southwestern part of the Moon's near side. It lies to the southwest of Mare Nubium, and southeast of Mare Humorum...	Marsh of Epidemics	32.0° S	28.2° W	286 km
Palus Putredinis Palus Putredinis Palus Putredinus is an area of the lunar surface that stretches from the crater Archimedes southeast toward the rugged Montes Apenninus range located on the southeastern edge of Mare Imbrium. This region is a nearly level, lava-flooded plain bounded by the crater Autolycus to the north and the...	Marsh of Decay	26.5° N	0.4° E	161 km
Palus Somni Palus Somni Palus Somni is an area on the Moon of relatively level but somewhat uneven terrain that lies along the northeastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis and the Sinus Concordiae. It has selenographic coordinates 14.1° N, 45.0° E, and has a diameter of 143 km.The surface of this feature has low ridges and...	Marsh of Sleep	14.1° N	45.0° E	143 km
Sinus Aestuum Sinus Aestuum Sinus Aestuum forms a northeastern extension to Mare Insularum. It has selenographic coordinates 10.9° N, 8.8° W, and it lies within a diameter of 290 km....	Seething Bay	10.9° N	8.8° W	290 km
Sinus Amoris Sinus Amoris Sinus Amoris extends northward from the northeast end of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located at selenographic coordinates 18.1° N, 39.1° E, and lies within a diameter of 130 km. To the north of the bay are the jumbled Montes Taurus peaks.Near the southern end of the bay where it outlets...	Bay of Love	18.1° N	39.1° E	130 km
Sinus Asperitatis Sinus Asperitatis Sinus Asperitatis is an area of lunar mare that extends southward from the Mare Tranquillitatis until it joins the Mare Nectaris to the southeast. It is bordered along the western and eastern sides by continental regions of irregular terrain...	Bay of Roughness	3.8° S	27.4° E	206 km
Sinus Concordiae Sinus Concordiae Sinus Concordiae is a bay on the Moon that lies along the eastern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. Along its northern border is an area called the Palus Somni, while the southern border is an area of irregular terrain that contains the ruined crater Da Vinci...	Bay of Harmony	10.8° N	43.2° E	142 km
Sinus Fidei Sinus Fidei Sinus Fidei is a small basaltic mare feature in the Terra Nivium region of the Moon....	Bay of Trust	18.0° N	2.0° E	70 km
Sinus Honoris Sinus Honoris Sinus Honoris is located along the western edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis located on the surface of the near side of the moon. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 11.7° N, 18.1° E, and it has a diameter of 109 km.Sinus Honoris has a wide mouth and is bordered by uneven terrain...	Bay of Honor	11.7° N	18.1° E	109 km
Sinus Iridum Sinus Iridum Sinus Iridum is a plain of basaltic lava that forms a northwestern extension to the Mare Imbrium. It is surrounded from the northeast to the southwest by the Montes Jura range. The protruding part of the range at the southwest end is named Promontorium Heraclides, while that at the northeast end...	Bay of Rainbows	44.1° N	31.5° W	236 km
Sinus Lunicus Sinus Lunicus Sinus Lunicus is an area of lunar mare along the southeast edge of the Mare Imbrium. It is formed by the area enclosed by the prominent craters Archimedes to the southwest, Autolycus to the southeast, and Aristillus to the northeast...	Lunik Luna 2 Luna 2 was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon... Bay	31.8° N	1.4° W	126 km
Sinus Medii Sinus Medii Sinus Medii is a small lunar mare that is located at the intersection of the Moon's equator and prime meridian. As seen from the Earth, this feature is located in the central part of the Moon's near side, and it is the point closest to the Earth...	Bay of the center	2.4° N	1.7° E	335 km
Sinus Roris Sinus Roris Sinus Roris is an extension of the northern edge of Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. The IAU-defined selenographic coordinates of this bay are 54.0° N, 56.6° W, and the diameter is 202 km....	Bay of Dew	54.0° N	56.6° W	202 km
Sinus Successus Sinus Successus The lunar feature Sinus Successus lies along the eastern edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It is an outward bulge that forms a type of bay. The selenographic coordinates of Sinus Successus are 0.9° N, 59.0° E, and the diameter is 132 km.Along the eastern edge of the bay is the flooded crater Condon,...	Bay of Success	0.9° N	59.0° E	132 km

Some sources also list a Palus Nebularum ("Marsh of Mists") at 38.0° N, 1.0° E. However the designation for this feature has not been officially recognized by the IAU

International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union IAU is a collection of professional astronomers, at the Ph.D. level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy...

Mountains

These are isolated mountains or massif

Massif

In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole...

s.

Note that the heights listed below are not consistent across sources. In the 1960s, the US Army Mapping Service used elevation relative to 1,737,988 meters from the center of the Moon. In the 1970s, the US Defense Mapping Agency used 1,730,000 meters. The Clementine

Clementine mission

Clementine was a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA...

topographic data published in the 1990s uses 1,737,400 meters.

Also note that this table is not comprehensive, and does not list the highest places on the Moon. Clementine data show a range of about 18,100 meters from lowest to highest point on the Moon. The highest point, located on the far side of the Moon, is approximately 6500 meters higher than Mons Huygens (usually listed as the tallest mountain).

Name	Lat. Latitude In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a... /Long. Longitude Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Ht. Height Height is the measurement of vertical distance, but has two meanings in common use. It can either indicate how "tall" something is, or how "high up" it is. For example "The height of the building is 50 m" or "The height of the airplane is 10,000 m"...	Name Origin
Mons Agnes Mons Agnes Mons Agnes is a mountain on the Moon at with a diameter of approximately one kilometer. It was named in 1979 after the Greek feminine name Agnes....	18.6°N 5.3°E	1 km		Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... feminine name
Mons Ampère	19.0°N 4.0°W	30 km	3.0 km	André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.... , physicist
Mons André	5.2°N 120.6°E	10 km		French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... masculine name
Mons Ardeshir Mons Ardeshir Mons Ardeshir is one of the mountains on the Moon. Its diameter is 8 km. In 1976 it was named after the Persian king Ardashir I.Coordinates:...	5.0°N 121.0°E	8 km		Ardashir, Persian Persian language Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence... (Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia... ian) emperor
Mons Argaeus Mons Argaeus Mons Argaeus is a mountainous massif on the Moon that extends for a length of 50 km towards the southeast. It is located at selenographic coordinates 19.0°N, 29.0°E, in the mountainous southeastern border of the Mare Serenitatis...	19.0°N 29.0°E	50 km		Mount Erciyes Mount Erciyes Mount Erciyes is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri in Turkey.Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching... , Asia Minor Asia Minor Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...
Mons Blanc	45.0°N 1.0°E	25 km	3.6 km	Mont Blanc Mont Blanc Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco , meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps, Western Europe and the European Union. It rises above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence... , the Alps Alps The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
Mons Bradley Mons Bradley Mons Bradley is a lunar mountain massif in the Montes Apenninus range, along the eastern edge of the Mare Imbrium. It is located to the west of the crater Conon. To the west of this peak is the Rima Bradley rille....	22.0°N 1.0°E	30 km	4.2 km	James Bradley James Bradley James Bradley FRS was an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light , and the nutation of the Earth's axis... , astronomer
Mons Delisle Mons Delisle Mons Delisle is a mountain on the Moon located on the edge of Mare Imbrium near the crater Delisle. It is elongated in shape and is about 30 km in diameter. The mountain was adopted and named after the nearby crater of the same name by the IAU in 1985....	29.5°N 35.8°W	30 km		Named after nearby crater Delisle Delisle (crater) Delisle is a small lunar crater in the western part of the Mare Imbrium. It lies to the north of the crater Diophantus, and just to the northwest of the ridge designated Mons Delisle. Between Delisle and Diophantus is a sinuous rille named Rima Diophantus, with a diameter of 150 km...
Mons Dieter	5.0°N 120.2°E	20 km		German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... masculine name
Mons Dilip	5.6°N 120.8°E	2 km		Indian masculine name
Mons Esam Mons Esam Mons Esam is a small, isolated mount on the northern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located to the southeast of the crater Vitruvius, and to the west-northwest of Lyell. To the northeast of this ridge is the bay called Sinus Amoris....	14.6°N 35.7°E	8 km		Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... masculine name
Mons Ganau	4.8°N 120.6°E	14 km		African African languages There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families:*Afro-Asiatic spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel... masculine name
Mons Gruithuisen Delta	36.0°N 35.9°W	20 km		Named after nearby crater Gruithuisen Gruithuisen (crater) Gruithuisen is a tiny lunar crater that lies on the section of lunar mare that joins Oceanus Procellarum in the west to Mare Imbrium in the east. Southeast of Gruithuisen is the small crater Delisle...
Mons Gruithuisen Gamma Mons Gruithuisen Gamma Mons Gruithuisen Gamma is a lunar dome that lies to the north of the crater Gruithuisen at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium. It is located at selenographic coordinates 36.6° N, 40.5° W. It is named after the King of Zanzibar's favourite cat....	36.6°N 40.5°W	20 km		Named after nearby crater Gruithuisen Gruithuisen (crater) Gruithuisen is a tiny lunar crater that lies on the section of lunar mare that joins Oceanus Procellarum in the west to Mare Imbrium in the east. Southeast of Gruithuisen is the small crater Delisle...
Mons Hadley Mons Hadley Mons Hadley is a massif in the northern portion of the Montes Apenninus, a range in the northern hemisphere of the Moon. The selenographic coordinates of this peak are 26.5° N, 4.7° E. It has a height of 4.6 km and a maximum diameter of 25 km at the base.To the southwest of this mountain...	26.5°N 4.7°E	25 km	4.6 km	John Hadley John Hadley John Hadley was an English mathematician, inventor of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, around 1730.He was born in Bloomsbury, London, to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley.... , inventor
Mons Hadley Delta	25.8°N 3.8°E	15 km	3.5 km	Named after nearby Mount Hadley
Mons Hansteen Mons Hansteen Mons Hansteen is a mountain on the Moon, also known as Hansteen Alpha , named after Christopher Hansteen.It is roughly triangular in shape and occupies an area about 30 km across on Oceanus Procellarum....	12.1°S 50.0°W	30 km		Named after nearby crater Hansteen Hansteen (crater) Hansteen is a lunar crater that lies near the southwest edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. To the southeast is the flooded crater Billy. The rim of Hansteen is somewhat polygonal in form, especially along the eastern side. There are a few terraces along the northwestern inner wall. The inner floor...
Mons Herodotus	27.5°N 53.0°W	5 km		Named after nearby crater Herodotus Herodotus (crater) Herodotus is a lunar crater located on a low shelf in the midst of the Oceanus Procellarum. To the east is the slightly larger crater Aristarchus. West across the mare is Schiaparelli. Almost due south on the mare surface is a solitary lunar dome designated Herodotus Omega .The crater Herodotus has...
Mons Huygens	20.0°N 2.9°W	40 km	4.7 km	Christian Huygens, astronomer
Mons La Hire Mons La Hire Mons La Hire is a solitary lunar mountain in the western Mare Imbrium. It is located to the northeast of the crater Euler, and to the west-northwest of Lambert....	27.8°N 25.5°W	25 km	1.5 km	Philippe de la Hire Philippe de La Hire Philippe de La Hire was a French mathematician and astronomer. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself".... , astronomer
Mons Maraldi Mons Maraldi Mons Maraldi is a 1.3-kilometer-tall mountain on the Moon at 20.3° N, 35.3°E, covering an area about 15 kilometers in diameter. It is named after the nearby crater Maraldi....	20.3°N 35.3°E	15 km	1.3 km	Named after nearby crater Maraldi Maraldi (lunar crater) Maraldi is a worn, eroded crater on the western edge of the Sinus Amoris, in the northeast part of the Moon. To the west-southwest is the crater Vitruvius, and to the northwest lies the worn Littrow...
Mons Moro	12.0°S 19.7°W	10 km		Antonio Lazzaro Moro, Earth scientist
Mons Penck Mons Penck Mons Penck is a mountain promontory on the near side of the Moon. It lies just to the northeast of the crater Kant, to the north of Ibn-Rushd and the Rupes Altai scarp. Southeast of Mons Penck are the prominent craters Theophilus and Cyrillus....	10.0°S 21.6°E	30 km	4. km	Albrecht Penck Albrecht Penck Albrecht Penck , was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.Born in Reudnitz near Leipzig, Penck became a university professor in Vienna from 1885 to 1906, and in Berlin from 1906 to 1927. There he was also the director of the Institute and Museum for Oceanography by 1918... , geographer
Mons Pico Mons Pico 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 northwest and with the Montes Teneriffe and Montes...	45.7°N 8.9°W	25 km	2. km	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... for "peak"
Mons Piton Mons Piton Mons Piton is an isolated lunar mountain that is located in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the north-northwest of the crater Aristillus. Due east of Mons Piton is the flooded crater Cassini, and to the west-northwest lies Piazzi Smyth...	40.6°N 1.1°W	25 km	2.3 km	Mount Piton, Tenerife Tenerife Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
Mons Rümker Mons Rümker Mons Rümker is an isolated volcanic formation that is located in the northwest part of the Moon's near side, at selenographic coordinates 40.8° N, 58.1° W. The feature forms a large, elevated mound in the northern part of the Oceanus Procellarum. The mound has a diameter of 70 kilometres, and...	40.8°N 58.1°W	70 km	0.5 km	Karl Ludwig Christian Rümker, astronomer
Mons Usov	12.0°N 63.0°E	15 km		Mikhail A. Usov, geologist
Mons Vinogradov Mons Vinogradov Mons Vinogradov is a rugged massif that is located on the lunar mare where Oceanus Procellarum to the southwest joins Mare Imbrium to the east. There are three primary peaks in this formation, which rise to altitudes of 1.0–1.4 km above the surface. To the east of this rise is the crater...	22.4°N 32.4°W	25 km	1.4 km	Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov, chemist
Mons Vitruvius Mons Vitruvius Mons Vitruvius is a mountain on the Moon that is located in the Montes Taurus region just to the north of Mare Tranquillitatis and to the southeast of Mare Serenitatis. This massif is located at selenographic coordinates of 19.4° N, 30.8° E, and it has a diameter across the base of 15 km. It...	19.4°N 30.8°E	15 km	2.3 km	Named after nearby crater Vitruvius Vitruvius (crater) Vitruvius is a small lunar impact crater that lies on the northern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. To the east is the crater Gardner, and to the northeast is Fabbroni. To the north-northwest is the elongated Mons Vitruvius mountain, and beyond is the valley where the Apollo 17 mission landed.The...
Mons Wolff	17.0°N 6.8°W	35 km	3.5 km	Baron Christian von Wolff Christian Wolff (philosopher) Christian Wolff was a German philosopher.He was the most eminent German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant... , philosopher

Mountain ranges

Name	Lat. Latitude In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a... /Long. Longitude Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....	Dia.	Name Origin
Montes Agricola Montes Agricola Montes Agricola is an elongated range of mountains near the eastern edge of the central Oceanus Procellarum lunar mare. It lies just to the northwest of a plateau containing the craters Herodotus and Aristarchus....	29.1°N 54.2°W	141 km	Georgius Agricola, Earth scientist
Montes Alpes Montes Alpes Montes Alpes is a mountain range in the northern part of the Moon's near side. It was named after the Alps in Europe.This range forms the northeastern border of the Mare Imbrium lunar mare. To the west of the range is the level and nearly featureless mare, while on the eastern face is a more rugged...	46.4°N 0.8°W	281 km	The Alps Alps The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west.... , Europe
Montes Apenninus Montes Apenninus Montes Apenninus are a rugged mountain range on the northern part of the Moon's near side. They are named after the Apennine Mountains in Italy....	18.9°N 3.7°W	401 km	The Apennine Mountains Apennine mountains The Apennines or Apennine Mountains or Greek oros but just as often used alone as a noun. The ancient Greeks and Romans typically but not always used "mountain" in the singular to mean one or a range; thus, "the Apennine mountain" refers to the entire chain and is translated "the Apennine... , Italy
Montes Archimedes Montes Archimedes Montes Archimedes is a mountain range on the Moon. It is named after the crater Archimedes that lies to the north, which in turn has an eponym of the Greek mathematician Archimedes....	25.3°N 4.6°W	163 km	Named after nearby crater Archimedes Archimedes (crater) Archimedes is a large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium. To the south of the crater extends the Montes Archimedes mountainous region. On the southeastern rim is the Palus Putredinis flooded plain, containing a system of rilles named the Rimae Archimedes that extend over...
Montes Carpatus Montes Carpatus Montes Carpatus is a mountain range that forms the southern edge of the Mare Imbrium on the Moon. The selenographic coordinates of this range are 14.5° N, 24.4° W, and the formation has an overall diameter of . They were named after the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe.This rugged range...	14.5°N 24.4°W	361 km	The Carpathian Mountains Carpathian Mountains The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe... , Europe
Montes Caucasus Montes Caucasus Montes Caucasus is a rugged range of mountains in the northeastern part of the Moon. It begins at a gap of level surface that joins the Mare Imbrium to the west with the Mare Serenitatis to the east, and extends in an irregular band to the north-northeast to the western side of the prominent crater...	38.4°N 10.0°E	445 km	The Caucasus Mountains Caucasus Mountains The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region .The Caucasus Mountains includes:* the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and* the Lesser Caucasus Mountains.... , Europe
Montes Cordillera Montes Cordillera Montes Cordillera is a mountain range on the Moon. This feature forms the outer wall of peaks that surround the Mare Orientale impact basin, the inner ring being formed by the Montes Rook...	17.5°S 81.6°W	574 km	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... for "mountain chain"
Montes Haemus Montes Haemus Montes Haemus is a curving range of mountains that forms the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis basin on the Moon. They form a less prominent mirror image of the Montes Apenninus range to the west, and curve up to nearly join at the northern end. The eastern edge terminates with the...	19.9°N 9.2°E	560 km	Greek name for the Balkan Mountains Balkan Mountains The Balkan mountain range is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. The Balkan range runs 560 km from the Vrashka Chuka Peak on the border between Bulgaria and eastern Serbia eastward through central Bulgaria to Cape Emine on the Black Sea...
Montes Harbinger Montes Harbinger Montes Harbinger is an isolated cluster of lunar mountains at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium basin. They are located to the northeast of the flooded crater Prinz. The mountains consist of four primary ridges plus several smaller hills, each forming a small rise surrounded by the lunar mare...	27.0°N 41.0°W	90 km	Harbinger Harbinger -Places:* Montes Harbinger, lunar mountains* Harbinger, an unincorporated community in Currituck County, North Carolina-Transportation:* Harbinger , ship also called Norfolk in 1797* Harbinger , thoroughbred racehorse... s of dawn on the crater Aristarchus Aristarchus (crater) Aristarchus is a prominent lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side. It is considered the brightest of the large formations on the lunar surface, with an albedo nearly double that of most lunar features. The feature is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye,...
Montes Jura Montes Jura Montes Jura is a mountain range in the northwest part of the Moon . The selenographic coordinates of this range are 47.1° N 34.0° W, and it has a diameter of 422 km...	47.1°N 34.0°W	422 km	The Jura Mountains Jura mountains The Jura Mountains are a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each... , Europe
Montes Pyrenaeus Montes Pyrenaeus Montes Pyrenaeus is a mountain range on the Moon. The range begins at the southwestern rim of the flooded crater Gutenberg at the northern end and extends southward bordering the eastern edge of Mare Nectaris....	15.6°S 41.2°E	164 km	The Pyrenees Mountains, Europe
Montes Recti Montes Recti Montes Recti is a mountain range on the northern part of the Moon's near side. It was given the Latin name for "Straight Range".This is a small range of irregular ridges that is located in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium. Montes Recti is an unusually linear formation that forms a line from...	48.0°N 20.0°W	90 km	Latin Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and... for "straight range"
Montes Riphaeus Montes Riphaeus Montes Riphaeus is an irregular range of lunar mountains that lie along the west-northwestern edge of Mare Cognitum, on the southeastern edge of Oceanus Procellarum. The range trends generally from north-northeast to south-southwest...	7.7°S 28.1°W	189 km	Greek name for the Ural Mountains Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia... , Russia
Montes Rook Montes Rook Montes Rook is a ring-shaped mountain range that lies along the western limb of the Moon, crossing over to the far side. It completely encircles the Mare Orientale, and forms part of a massive impact basin feature...	20.6°S 82.5°W	791 km	Lawrence Rook, astronomer
Montes Secchi Montes Secchi Montes Secchi is minor range of lunar mountains that located near the northwestern edge of Mare Fecunditatis. This roughly linear formation of low ridges grazes the northwestern outer rim of the crater Secchi, the formation from which this range gained its name...	3.0°N 43.0°E	50 km	Named after nearby crater Secchi Secchi (lunar crater) Secchi is a small lunar crater formation on the northwest edge of Mare Fecunditatis. To the northeast is the crater Taruntius. The western rim is joined with a section of the minor Montes Secchi range. The rim of this crater has been opened in the northern and southern ends, leaving two curved...
Montes Spitzbergen Montes Spitzbergen Montes Spitzbergen is a solitary mountain chain in the eastern Mare Imbrium of the Moon. They are located about a crater diameter to the north of the prominent flooded crater Archimedes....	35.0°N 5.0°W	60 km	Named after German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... for "sharp peaks" and for resemblance to the Spitsbergen Spitsbergen Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea... islands
Montes Taurus Montes Taurus Montes Taurus is a rugged, jumbled mountainous region on the Moon. These peaks are located on a highland region to the east of the Mare Serenitatis, in the northeastern quadrant of the Moon's near side. The selenographic coordinates of this range are 28.4° N, 41.1° E, and they have a diameter of...	28.4°N 41.1°E	172 km	Taurus Mountains Taurus Mountains Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east... , Asia Minor
Montes Teneriffe Montes Teneriffe Montes Teneriffe is a range on the northern part of the Moon's near side. It was named after Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands.This range is located in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the southwest of the crater Plato. The Montes Teneriffe lie within a diameter of about 110 kilometers,...	47.1°N 11.8°W	182 km	Tenerife Tenerife Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the... island

Other Features

The Moon

Moon

's surface is covered in many interesting geological features. In addition to mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

s, valley

Valley

s, and 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...

s, the following surface features have received names in the Lunar nomenclature. Many of these features are named after a nearby crater or mountain.

The listed diameter

Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...

for these features is the longest dimension that contains the entire geological formation. The latitude

Latitude

In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...

and longitude

Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....

are in selenographic coordinates

Selenographic coordinates

Selenographic coordinates are used to refer to locations on the surface of Earth's moon. Any position on the lunar surface can be referenced by specifying two numerical values, which are comparable to the latitude and longitude of Earth...

Albedo

These features are notable for their high albedo

Albedo

Albedo , or reflection coefficient, is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface. It is defined as the ratio of reflected radiation from the surface to incident radiation upon it...

compared to the surrounding terrain.

Name	Coordinates	Diameter Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Reiner Gamma Reiner Gamma Reiner Gamma 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 . It has an overall dimension of about 70 kilometres...	7.5°N 59.0°W	70.0 km	After nearby crater Reiner Reiner (crater) Reiner is a lunar impact crater on the Oceanus Procellarum, in the western part of the Moon. It has a nearly circular rim, but appears oval in shape due to foreshortening. The rim edge is well-defined and has not been eroded by impacts. In the mid-point of the irregular crater floor is a central peak...

Note: On the far side of the Moon

Moon

there are unnamed albedo features on Mare Ingenii

Mare Ingenii

Mare Ingenii is one of the few lunar mare features on the far side of the Moon. The mare sits in the Ingenii basin. This basin material is of the Pre-Nectarian epoch. The mare material located in Ingenii and the surrounding craters is of the Upper Imbrian epoch...

and Mare Marginis

Mare Marginis

Mare Marginis is a lunar mare that lies on the very edge of the lunar nearside. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 13.3° N, 86.1° E, and the diameter is 420 km. The name is Latin for "Sea of the Edge"....

. These are located antipodal

Antipode

Antipode, Antipodes, or Antipodeans may refer to:* Antipodal point, the diametrically opposite point on a sphere* Antipodes Water Company, a premium bottled water brand...

to the Mare Imbrium

Mare Imbrium

Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago...

and Mare Orientale

Mare Orientale

Mare Orientale is one of the most striking large scale lunar features, resembling a target ring bull's-eye. Located on the extreme western edge of the lunar nearside, this impact basin is difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective.Material from this basin was not sampled by the Apollo program...

impact basins.

Catena

A catena is a chain of 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...

Name	Coordinates	Diameter Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Catena Abulfeda Catena Abulfeda Catena Abulfeda is a chain of craters on the Moon that runs between the southern rim of the crater Abulfeda and the north rim of Almanon, then continues for a length of 210 kilometers across the Rupes Altai. It is located at ....	16.9°S 17.2°E	219 km	After nearby crater Abulfeda Abulfeda (crater) Abulfeda is a lunar impact crater located in the central highlands of the Moon. To the northeast is the crater Descartes, and to the south-southeast is Almanon. To the north is the crater Dollond. A chain of craters named the Catena Abulfeda runs between the southern rim of Abulfeda and the north...
Catena Artamonov Catena Artamonov Catena Artamonov is a -long chain of craters on the Moon. It is named after the nearby crater Artamonov and is located at ....	26.0°N 105.9°E	134 km	After nearby crater Artamonov Artamonov (crater) Artamonov is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. The eroded outer rim of Artamonov does not have the circular shape of most lunar craters, and instead has the overall shape of three or four merged craters...
Catena Brigitte	18.5°N 27.5°E	5 km	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... feminine name
Catena Davy	11.0°S 7.0°W	50 km	After nearby crater Davy Davy (crater) Davy is a small lunar crater that is located on the eastern edge of the Mare Nubium. It overlies the lava-flooded remains of the satellite crater Davy Y to the east, a formation which contains a crater chain designated Catena Davy. To the southeast of Davy is the prominent crater Alphonsus.The...
Catena Dziewulski	19.0°N 100.0°E	80 km	After nearby crater Dziewulski Dziewulski (crater) Dziewulski is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies between the craters Edison to the north and Popov to the south. The outer rim of this crater has been considerably worn by impacts, particularly along the southwest quadrant where the satellite crater Dziewulski Q overlies the rim...
Catena Gregory	0.6°S 129.9°E	152 km	After nearby crater Gregory Gregory (crater) Gregory may refer to:* Gregory * Gregory on the planet Venus...
Catena Humboldt	21.5°S 84.6°E	165 km	After nearby crater Humboldt Humboldt (crater) Humboldt is a large lunar crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this formation has an extremely oblong appearance. The actual shape of the crater is an irregular circle, with a significant indentation along the southeastern rim where the prominent crater...
Catena Krafft	15.0°N 72.0°W	60 km	After nearby crater Krafft Krafft (crater) Krafft is a prominent lunar impact crater located near the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. To the north is the lava-flooded walled plain Eddington. Almost due south is the crater Cardanus, and the two are connected by a 60-kilometer-long chain of craters known as the Catena Krafft.Krafft...
Catena Kurchatov	37.2°N 136.3°E	226 km	After nearby crater Kurchatov Kurchatov (crater) Kurchatov is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side. It is just to the southwest of the crater Wiener, and farther to the southeast of Bridgman...
Catena Leuschner	4.7°N 110.1°W	364 km	After nearby crater Leuschner Leuschner (crater) Leuschner is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, to the northwest of the Montes Cordillera. It lies to the north of the crater Grachev, in the outer skirt of ejecta surrounding the Mare Orientale impact basin. This is a circular crater with a rim that has only been lightly...
Catena Littrow	22.2°N 29.5°E	10 km	After nearby crater Littrow Littrow (crater) Littrow is a lunar crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, on the east edge of Mare Serenitatis. Some distance to the northeast is the prominent crater Römer, while to the south is Vitruvius....
Catena Lucretius	3.4°S 126.1°W	271 km	After nearby crater Lucretius Lucretius (crater) Lucretius is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the southeast of the huge walled plain Hertzsprung, within the outer skirt of ejecta that surrounds that impact feature. To the southwest of Lucretius lies Fridman....
Catena Mendeleev	6.3°N 139.4°E	188 km	After nearby crater Mendeleev Mendeleev (crater) Mendeleev is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, as seen from the Earth. The southern rim of this walled plain just crosses the lunar equator. Intruding into the eastern rim of Mendeleev is the crater Schuster...
Catena Michelson	1.4°N 113.4°W	456 km	After nearby crater Michelson Michelson (crater) Michelson is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies along the northeastern outer rim of the huge walled plain Hertzsprung, and to the southwest of the crater Kolhörster....
Catena Pierre	19.8°N 31.8°W	9 km	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts... masculine name
Catena Sumner	37.3°N 112.3°E	247 km	After nearby crater Sumner Sumner (crater) Sumner is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon, beyond the northeastern limb. It is southwest of the larger crater Szilard, and southeast of the twin walled plains Fabry and Harkhebi....
Catena Sylvester	81.4°N 86.2°E	173 km	After nearby crater Sylvester Sylvester (crater) Sylvester is a lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon, along the northern limb in the libration zone. It lies just to the south-southeast of the craters Grignard and Hermite; the latter of which is within one crater diameter of the pole. South of Sylvester is Pascal...
Catena Taruntius	3.0°N 48.0°E	100 km	After nearby crater Taruntius Taruntius (crater) Taruntius is a lunar crater on the northwestern edge of Mare Fecunditatis. To the northwest is the lava-flooded crater Lawrence, and to the north lie the craters Watts and da Vinci...
Catena Timocharis	29.0°N 13.0°W	50 km	After nearby crater Timocharis Timocharis (crater) Timocharis is a prominent lunar impact crater located on the Mare Imbrium. The closest crater of comparable dimensions is Lambert to the west. The smaller craters Feuillée and Beer lie to the east of Timocharis....
Catena Yuri	24.4°N 30.4°W	5 km	Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics... masculine name

Dorsa

These features are wrinkle-ridge

Wrinkle-ridge

A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the mare surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. Wrinkle ridges are tectonic features created when the basaltic lava first cooled and contracted...

systems commonly found on lunar maria

Lunar mare

The lunar maria are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. They were dubbed maria, Latin for "seas", by early astronomers who mistook them for actual seas. They are less reflective than the "highlands" as a result of their iron-rich compositions, and...

Name	Coordinates	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Dorsa Aldrovandi Dorsa Aldrovandi Dorsa Aldrovandi is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is about 136 km in diameter and was named named after Ulissi Aldrovandi in 1976....	24.0°N 28.5°E	136 km	Ulissi Aldrovandi (1522–1605)
Dorsa Andrusov Dorsa Andrusov Dorsa Andrusov is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon. It is 160 km in diameter and was named after Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov in 1976....	1.0°S 57.0°E	160 km	Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov was a Russian geologist, stratigrapher, and palaeontologist.He was born in Odessa, then a part of Russia. He studied geology and zoology at the Novorossia University in Odessa... (1861–1924)
Dorsa Argand	28.1°N 40.6°W	109 km	Emile Argand Émile Argand Émile Argand was a Swiss geologist.He was born in Eaux-Vives near Geneva. He attended vocational school in Geneva then worked as a draftsman... (1879–1940)
Dorsa Barlow Dorsa Barlow Dorsa Barlow is a wrinkle ridge system at on the Moon, in Mare Tranquilitatis near the border with Mare Serenitatis. It is 120 km in diameter and was named after William Barlow in 1976....	15.0°N 31.0°E	120 km	William Barlow (1845–1934)
Dorsa Burnet Dorsa Burnet Dorsa Burnet is a wrinkle ridge at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is about 194 km long and was named after Thomas Burnet in 1976....	28.4°N 57.0°W	194 km	Thomas Burnet Thomas Burnet Thomas Burnet , theologian and writer on cosmogony.-Life:He was born at Croft near Darlington in 1635. After studying at Northallerton Grammar School under Thomas Smelt, he went to Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1651. There he was a pupil of John Tillotson... (1635–1715)
Dorsa Cato Dorsa Cato Dorsa Cato is a wrinkle ridge at on the Moon. It is 140 km long and was named after Cato the Elder in 1976....	1.0°N 47.0°E	140 km	Cato the Elder Cato the Elder Marcus Porcius Cato was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius , Sapiens , Priscus , or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger.He came of an ancient Plebeian family who all were noted for some... (234-149 B.C.)
Dorsa Dana Dorsa Dana Dorsa Dana is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Smythii on the Moon. It is 70 km long and was named after James Dwight Dana in 1976....	3.0°N 90.0°E	70 km	James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:... (1813–1895)
Dorsa Ewing Dorsa Ewing Dorsa Ewing is a wrinkle ridge at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is 141 km long and was named after William Maurice Ewing....	10.2°S 39.4°W	141 km	William Maurice Ewing (1906–1974)
Dorsa Geikie Dorsa Geikie Dorsa Geikie is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon. It is 228 km long and was named after Sir Archibald Geikie in 1976....	4.6°S 52.5°E	228 km	Sir Archibald Geikie Archibald Geikie Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE , was a Scottish geologist and writer.-Early life:Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of musician and music critic James Stuart Geikie... (1835–1924)
Dorsa Harker Dorsa Harker Dorsa Harker is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Crisium on the Moon. It is 197 km long and was named after Alfred Harker, an English petrologist, in 1976....	14.5°N 64.0°E	197 km	Alfred Harker Alfred Harker (petrologist) Alfred Harker FRS was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland and conducted extensive surveying and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye... (1859–1939)
Dorsa Lister Dorsa Lister Dorsa Lister is a wrinkle ridge system at on the Moon, in southern Mare Serenitatis. It is 203 km in diameter and was named after Martin Lister in 1976....	20.3°N 23.8°E	203 km	Martin Lister Martin Lister Martin Lister FRS was an English naturalist and physician.-Life:Lister was born at Radcliffe, near Buckingham, the son of Sir Martin Lister MP for Brackley in the Long Parliament and his wife Susan Temple daughter of Sir Alexander Temple. Lister was connected to a number of well known individuals... (1639–1712)
Dorsa Mawson Dorsa Mawson Dorsa Mawson is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon. It is 132 km long and was named after Douglas Mawson in 1976....	7.0°S 53.0°E	132 km	Douglas Mawson Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an... (1882–1958)
Dorsa Rubey Dorsa Rubey Dorsa Rubey is a wrinkle ridge system at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is 100 km long and was named after William Walden Rubey in 1976....	10.0°S 42.0°W	100 km	William Walden Rubey William Walden Rubey William Walden Rubey was an American geologist.He was born in Moberly, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri, and in 1920 he graduated with an A.B. degree. During the same year he married Susan Elsie Manovill, and joined the U.S. Geological Survey... (1898–1974)
Dorsa Smirnov Dorsa Smirnov Dorsa Smirnov is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is 156 km in diameter and was named after Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov in 1976....	27.3°N 25.3°E	156 km	Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov (1895–1947)
Dorsa Sorby Dorsa Sorby Dorsa Sorby is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is 80 km long and was named after Henry Clifton Sorby in 1976....	19.0°N 14.0°E	80 km	Henry Clifton Sorby Henry Clifton Sorby Henry Clifton Sorby , was an English microscopist and geologist.-Biography:Sorby was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire and attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early developed an interest in natural science, and one of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in... (1826–1908)
Dorsa Stille Dorsa Stille Dorsa Stille is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 80 km long and was named after Hans Stille in 1976....	27.0°N 19.0°W	80 km	Hans Stille Hans Stille Hans Wilhelm Stille was an influential German geologist working primarily on tectonics and the collation of tectonic events during the Phanerozoic.... (1876–1966)
Dorsa Tetyaev Dorsa Tetyaev Dorsa Tetyaev is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Crisium on the Moon. It is 176 km long and was named after Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev in 1979....	19.9°N 64.2°E	176 km	Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev was a Soviet tectonic geologist.The wrinkle ridge Dorsa Tetyaev on the Moon is named after Mikhail Tetyaev.... (1882–1956)
Dorsa Whiston Dorsa Whiston Dorsa Whiston is a wrinkle ridge system at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is 85 km long and was named after William Whiston in 1976....	29.4°N 56.4°W	85 km	William Whiston William Whiston William Whiston was an English theologian, historian, and mathematician. He is probably best known for his translation of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus, his A New Theory of the Earth, and his Arianism... (1667–1752)

Dorsum

These features are wrinkle ridges commonly found on lunar mare

Lunar mare

Name	Coordinates	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Dorsum Arduino Dorsum Arduino Dorsum Arduino is a wrinkle ridge at in the border region between Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 107 km long and was named after Giovanni Arduino in 1976....	24.9°N 35.8°W	107 km	Giovanni Arduino Giovanni Arduino (geologist) Giovanni Arduino was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology".Arduino was born at Caprino Veronese, Veneto. He was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy... (1714–1795)
Dorsum Azara Dorsum Azara Dorsum Azara is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is 105 km long and was named after Spanish naturalist Félix Manuel de Azara in 1976....	26.7°N 19.2°E	105 km	Félix Manuel de Azara Félix de Azara Félix Manuel de Azara was a Spanish military officer, naturalist and engineer. He was born in Barbunales, Aragon.... (1746–1811)
Dorsum Bucher Dorsum Bucher Dorsum Bucher is a wrinkle-ridge at in the border region between Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 90 km long and was named after Walter Hermann Bucher....	31.0°N 39.0°W	90 km	Walter Hermann Bucher Walter Hermann Bucher Dr. Walter Hermann Bucher was a German-American geologist and paleontologist.He was born in Akron, Ohio of Swiss-German parents. The family then returned to Germany where he was raised. In 1911 he was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Heidelberg with a focus on geology and paleontology. The... (1889–1965)
Dorsum Buckland Dorsum Buckland Dorsum Buckland is a large wrinkle ridge at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon, 380 km long. It is named after William Buckland.Dorsum Buckland's ridges are 200 to 300 meters high and were formed by compressional stresses near the center of the basin, possibly over buried basin structures....	20.4°N 12.8°E	380 km	William Buckland William Buckland The Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus... (1784–1856)
Dorsum Cayeux Dorsum Cayeux Dorsum Cayeux is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon. It is 84 km long and was named after Lucien Cayeux in 1976....	1.6°N 51.2°E	84 km	Lucien Cayeux Lucien Cayeux Lucien Cayeux was a French sedimentary petrographer.In 1902 joined the l'Ecole des Mines and become a professor of geology. In 1912 he was named as professor of geology at the Collège de France... (1864–1944)
Dorsum Cloos Dorsum Cloos Dorsum Cloos is a wrinkle-ridge at in Mare Smythii on the Moon. It is 100 km long and was named after Hans Cloos in 1976....	1.0°N 91.0°E	100 km	Hans Cloos Hans Cloos Hans Cloos was a prominent German structural geologist.Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Hans Cloos earned his doctorate at Freiburg in 1910, then worked in Indonesia and Namibia up until the start of First World War... (1885–1951)
Dorsum Cushman Dorsum Cushman Dorsum Cushman is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon. It is 80 km long and was named after Joseph Augustine Cushman in 1976....	1.0°N 49.0°E	80 km	Joseph Augustine Cushman Joseph Augustine Cushman Joseph Augustine Cushman was an American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist.He was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and was educated at Bridgewater State College. He was the captain and catcher for the baseball team along with fullback and manager for the football team. He... (1881–1949)
Dorsum Gast Dorsum Gast Dorsum Gast is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is 60 km long and was named after Paul Werner Gast in 1973....	24.0°N 9.0°E	60 km	Paul Werner Gast Paul Werner Gast Paul Werner Gast was an American geochemist and geologist.He was born in Chicago, and attended Wheaton College, Illinois from whence he graduated in 1952. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1957... (1930–1973)
Dorsum Grabau Dorsum Grabau Dorsum Grabau is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 121 km long and was named after Amadeus William Grabau in 1976....	29.4°N 15.9°W	121 km	Amadeus William Grabau Amadeus William Grabau Amadeus William Grabau was a German-American paleontologist and geologist who was born on January 9, 1870 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin in the United States and died on March 20, 1946 in Peking, China. He was employed as faculty at MIT and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... (1870–1946)
Dorsum Guettard Dorsum Guettard Dorsum Guettard is a wrinkle-ridge at in Mare Cognitum on the Moon. It is 40 km long and was named after Jean-Etienne Guettard in 1976....	10.0°S 18.0°W	40 km	Jean-Etienne Guettard Jean-Étienne Guettard Jean-Étienne Guettard , French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Étampes, near Paris.In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, who was an apothecary, and later he qualified as a doctor in medicine... (1715–1786)
Dorsum Heim Dorsum Heim Dorsum Heim is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 148 km long and was named after Albert Heim in 1976....	32.0°N 29.8°W	148 km	Albert Heim Albert Heim Albert Heim was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.Born at Zürich, he was educated at Zürich and Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the Tödi group... (1849–1937)
Dorsum Higazy Dorsum Higazy Dorsum Higazy is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 60 km long and was named after Riad Higazy in 1976....	28.0°N 17.0°W	60 km	Riad Higazy Riad Higazy Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy was an Egyptian earth scientist.The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him.... (1919–1967)
Dorsum Nicol Dorsum Nicol Dorsum Nicol is a wrinkle ridge on the Moon at in Mare Serenitatis near the border of Mare Tranquilitatis. It is 50 km long and was named after William Nicol in 1976....	18.0°N 23.0°E	50 km	William Nicol (1768–1851)
Dorsum Niggli Dorsum Niggli Dorsum Niggli is a wrinkle ridge at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is 50 km long and was named after Paul Niggli in 1976....	29.0°N 52.0°W	50 km	Paul Niggli (1888–1953)
Dorsum Oppel Dorsum Oppel Dorsum Oppel is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Crisium on the Moon. It is 268 km long and was named after Albert Oppel in 1976....	18.7°N 52.6°E	268 km	Albert Oppel Albert Oppel Carl Albert Oppel was a German paleontologist.-History:He was born at Hohenheim in Württemberg, on December 19, 1831. He first went to the University of Tübingen, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1853. The results of his work was published in Die Juraformation Englands, Frankreichs and des... (1831–1865)
Dorsum Owen Dorsum Owen Dorsum Owen is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is 50 km long and was named after George Owen of Henllys in 1976....	25.0°N 11.0°E	50 km	George Owen (1552–1613)
Dorsum Scilla Dorsum Scilla Dorsum Scilla is a wrinkle ridge at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is 108 km long and was named after Agostino Scilla in 1976....	32.8°N 60.4°W	108 km	Agostino Scilla Agostino Scilla Agostino Scilla was an Italian painter, paleontologist, geologist, and pioneer in the study of fossils.The son of a government official in Messina, Sicily, Scilla studied under Andrea Sacchi in Rome and became a painter. He began to study fossils found in the hills of Sicily, sometimes... (1639–1700)
Dorsum Termier Dorsum Termier Dorsum Termier is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Crisium on the Moon. It is 90 km long and was named after Pierre-Marie Termier in 1976....	11.0°N 58.0°E	90 km	Pierre-Marie Termier Pierre-Marie Termier Pierre-Marie Termier was a French geologist.He was born in Lyon, in Rhône, France, the son of Joseph François Termier and Jeanne Mollard. At the age of 18 he entered the Polytechnic School, then the Paris School of Mines in 1880. After graduation he became professor at the school of mines at... (1859–1930)
Dorsum Thera Dorsum Thera Dorsum Thera is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 7 km long. It was named in 1976 but wasn't named after a specific person, "Thera" being a common Greek feminine name....	24.4°N 31.4°W	7 km	Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... feminine name
Dorsum Von Cotta Dorsum Von Cotta Dorsum Von Cotta is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is 199 km long and was named after Carl Bernard von Cotta in 1976....	23.2°N 11.9°E	199 km	Carl Bernard von Cotta (1808–1879)
Dorsum Zirkel Dorsum Zirkel Dorsum Zirkel is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is 193 km long and was named after Ferdinand Zirkel in 1976....	28.1°N 23.5°W	193 km	Ferdinand Zirkel Ferdinand Zirkel Ferdinand Zirkel was a German geologist and petrographer.-Biography:He was born in Bonn. He was educated in his native town, and graduated Ph.D. at the University of Bonn in 1861. His training and initial interest was in mining... (1838–1912)

Promontorium

These features form a cape or headland

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment.- Geology and geography :Headlands and bays are often found on the same coastline. A bay is surrounded by land on three sides, whereas a headland is surrounded by water on three sides. Headlands are characterized by high,...

on a mare

Lunar mare

Name	Coordinates	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Promontorium Agarum Promontorium Agarum Promontorium Agarum is a raised mountainous cape protruding into the southeast of Mare Crisium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 14.0° N, 66.0° E and it is 70 km in diameter....	14.0°N 66.0°E	70 km	Named from a cape in the Sea of Azov Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov , known in Classical Antiquity as Lake Maeotis, is a sea on the south of Eastern Europe. It is linked by the narrow Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south and is bounded on the north by Ukraine mainland, on the east by Russia, and on the west by the Ukraine's Crimean...
Promontorium Agassiz	42.0°N 1.8°E	20 km	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–1873)
Promontorium Archerusia	16.7°N 22.0°E	10 km	Named from a cape on the Black Sea Black Sea The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...
Promontorium Deville	43.2°N 1.0°E	20 km	Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville was a geologist and meteorologist.Born in St Thomas he was the brother of Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville.... (1814–1876)
Promontorium Fresnel	29.0°N 4.7°E	20 km	Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788–1827)
Promontorium Heraclides Promontorium Heraclides Promontorium Heraclides is a raised mountainous cape situated in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 40.3° N, 33.2° W and it is 50 km in diameter. It marks the western edge of the bay of Sinus Iridum....	40.3°N 33.2°W	50 km	Heraclides Ponticus Heraclides Ponticus Heraclides Ponticus , also known as Herakleides and Heraklides of Pontus, was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey. He is best remembered for proposing that the earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours...
Promontorium Kelvin	27.0°S 33.0°W	50 km	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging... (1824–1907)
Promontorium Laplace Promontorium Laplace Promontorium Laplace is a raised mountainous cape situated at the end of Montes Jura in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 46.0° N, 26.0° W and it is 2600 meters high. It is the east beginning of the bay of Sinus Iridum....	46.0°N 25.8°W	50 km	Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
Promontorium Taenarium	19.0°S 8.0°W	70 km	Named from cape in Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

Rima

These features are lunar rille

Rille

Rille 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...

Name	Coordinates	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Rima Agatharchides	20.0°S 28.0°W	50 km	Named from nearby crater Agatharchides Agatharchides (crater) Agatharchides is a lunar crater located at the southern edge of Oceanus Procellarum, in the region between the Mare Humorum and Mare Nubium. To the east-southeast is the crater Bullialdus, and to the south-southwest lies Loewy. It is named after the Greek geographer Agatharchides.The interior of...
Rima Agricola	29.0°N 53.0°W	110 km	Named from nearby Montes Agricola Montes Agricola Montes Agricola is an elongated range of mountains near the eastern edge of the central Oceanus Procellarum lunar mare. It lies just to the northwest of a plateau containing the craters Herodotus and Aristarchus....
Rima Archytas	53.0°S 3.0°E	90 km	Named from nearby crater Archytas Archytas (crater) Archytas is a lunar impact crater that protrudes into the northern edge of Mare Frigoris. To the northwest is the comparably sized crater Timaeus, and the smaller Protagoras lies in the opposite direction to the southeast...
Rima Ariadaeus Rima Ariadaeus Rima Ariadaeus is a linear rille on the Moon at . 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's crust sank down between two parallel fault lines . It is a relatively young lunar feature,...	6.4°N 14.0°E	250 km	Named from nearby crater Ariadaeus Ariadaeus (crater) Ariadaeus is a small, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater on the western shores of Mare Tranquillitatis. It lies to the north of the crater Dionysius, and to the west-southwest of Arago. The crater is joined along the northeast rim by the slightly smaller Ariadaeus A, and the two form a...
Rima Billy	15.0°S 48.0°W	70 km	Named from nearby crater Billy Billy (crater) Billy is a lunar crater that is located at the southern fringes of the Oceanus Procellarum, in the western hemisphere of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the similar-sized crater Hansteen, and west-southwest of the flooded Letronne....
Rima Birt	21.0°S 9.0°W	50 km	Named from nearby crater Birt Birt (crater) Birt is a lunar impact crater located in the eastern half of the Mare Nubium and west of the Rupes Recta.Birt is a bowl-shaped formation with a raised rim, slightly slightly intersected along the southeast edge by the much smaller crater Birt A...
Rima Bradley	23.8°N 1.2°W	161 km	Named from nearby Mons Bradley Mons Bradley Mons Bradley is a lunar mountain massif in the Montes Apenninus range, along the eastern edge of the Mare Imbrium. It is located to the west of the crater Conon. To the west of this peak is the Rima Bradley rille....
Rima Brayley	21.4°N 37.5°W	311 km	Named from nearby crater Brayley Brayley (crater) Brayley is a lunar impact crater located in the southwest part of the Mare Imbrium. It has a circular rim and a low rise in the center. There are no notable craters overlapping the rim or interior.-Satellite craters:...
Rima Calippus	37.0°N 13.0°E	40 km	Named from nearby crater Calippus Calippus (crater) Calippus is a small lunar crater that is located on the eastern edge of the rugged Montes Caucasus mountain range in the northern part of the Moon...
Rima Cardanus	11.4°N 71.5°E	175 km	Named from nearby crater Cardanus Cardanus (crater) Cardanus is a lunar impact crater that is located in the western part of the Moon, in the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum. Due to its location the crater appears very oval because of foreshortening, and it is viewed almost from the side....
Rima Carmen	19.8°N 29.3°E	10 km	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the... feminine name
Rima Cauchy	10.5°N 38.0°E	140 km	Named from nearby crater Cauchy Cauchy (crater) Cauchy is a small lunar impact crater on the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis. It is circular and symmetric, with a small interior floor at the mid-point of the sloping inner walls. Due to the high albedo of this bowl-shaped formation, it is particularly prominent at full Moon...
Rima Cleomedes	27.0°N 57.0°E	80 km	Within crater Cleomedes Cleomedes (crater) Cleomedes is a prominent lunar crater located in the northeast part of the visible Moon, to the north of Mare Crisium. It is surrounded by rough ground with multiple crater impacts. The irregular crater Tralles intrudes into the northwest rim. To the east is Delmotte...
Rima Cleopatra	30.0°N 53.8°W	14 km	Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... feminine name
Rima Conon	18.6°N 2.0°E	30 km	Named from nearby crater Conon Conon (crater) Conon is a small but prominent lunar impact crater that lies in the eastern foothills of the Montes Apenninus mountain range. Just to the west of Conon is the long mountainous ridge named Mons Bradley...
Rima Dawes	17.5°N 26.6°E	15 km	Named from nearby crater Dawes Dawes (lunar crater) Dawes is a lunar impact crater, named after William Rutter Dawes, and which is located in the wide straight between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquilitatis. To the southwest is the larger crater Plinius. To the northeast is the Mons Argaeus mountain rise....
Rima Delisle	31.0°N 32.0°W	60 km	Named from nearby crater Delisle Delisle (crater) Delisle is a small lunar crater in the western part of the Mare Imbrium. It lies to the north of the crater Diophantus, and just to the northwest of the ridge designated Mons Delisle. Between Delisle and Diophantus is a sinuous rille named Rima Diophantus, with a diameter of 150 km...
Rima Diophantus	29.0°N 33.0°W	150 km	Named from nearby crater Diophantus Diophantus (crater) Diophantus is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southwestern part of the Mare Imbrium. It forms a pair with the larger crater Delisle to the north. Diophantus has a wide inner wall and a low central rise. To the north of Diophantus is the sinuous rille designated Rima Diophantus, named after...
Rima Draper	18.0°N 25.0°W	160 km	Named from nearby crater Draper Draper (crater) Draper is a small lunar impact crater in the southern part of the Mare Imbrium. It is a circular, cup-shaped formation, with a tiny craterlet intruding into the northeastern rim. To the north-northeast is the crater Pytheas, and to the south lies the Montes Carpatus range. Just to the southeast is...
Rima Euler	21.0°N 31.0°W	90 km	Named from nearby crater Euler Euler (crater) Euler is a lunar impact crater located in the southern half of the Mare Imbrium. The most notable nearby feature is Mons Vinogradov to the west-southwest. There is a cluster of low ridges to the southwest, and this formation includes the small crater Natasha and the tiny Jehan...
Rima Flammarion	2.8°S 5.6°W	80 km	Named from nearby crater Flammarion Flammarion (lunar crater) Flammarion is a lunar crater on the south edge of Sinus Medii. It is located between the crater Mösting to the northwest and Herschel to the southeast. The bowl-shaped Mösting A intersects the western rim of Flammarion....
Rima Furnerius	35.0°S 61.0°E	50 km	Within crater Furnerius Furnerius (crater) Furnerius is a large lunar crater located in the southeast part of the Moon, in the area close to the southwestern limb. Because of its location, the crater appears oval in shape due to foreshortening but is actually nearly circular. Notable nearby craters include Stevinus to the northwest and...
Rima G. Bond	33.3°N 35.5°E	168 km	Named from nearby crater G. Bond G. Bond (crater) G. Bond is a small lunar impact crater to the south of the Lacus Somniorum, a small lunar mare in the northeast part of the Moon's near side. It lies to the east of the larger crater Posidonius, and to the south of the flooded crater remnant Hall...
Rima Galilaei	11.9°N 58.5°W	89 km	Named from nearby crater Galilaei Galilaei (lunar crater) Galilaei is a lunar impact crater located in the western Oceanus Procellarum. Some distance to the southeast is the crater Reiner, while to the south-southwest is Cavalerius. Northeast of the crater is a meandering rille named the Rima Galilaei...
Rima Gärtner	59.0°N 63.0°E	30 km	Within crater Gärtner Gärtner (crater) Gärtner is the lava-flooded remnant of a crater in the northeast part of the Moon. It is located on the northern edge of the Mare Frigoris. The southern half of the formation is completely missing, and Gärtner forms a semi-circular basin along the edges of the lunar mare...
Rima Gay-Lussac	13.0°N 22.0°W	40 km	Named from nearby crater Gay-Lussac Gay-Lussac (crater) Gay-Lussac is a lunar crater located to the north of the prominent crater Copernicus, in the southern foothills of the Montes Carpatus range. The rim of the crater is slightly distorted, although generally circular. The inner floor is flat but rough, with no central peak. There are a pair of small...
Rima Hadley	25.0°N 3.0°E	80 km	Named from nearby Mons Hadley Mons Hadley Mons Hadley is a massif in the northern portion of the Montes Apenninus, a range in the northern hemisphere of the Moon. The selenographic coordinates of this peak are 26.5° N, 4.7° E. It has a height of 4.6 km and a maximum diameter of 25 km at the base.To the southwest of this mountain...
Rima Hansteen	12.0°S 53.0°W	25 km	Named from nearby crater Hansteen Hansteen (crater) Hansteen is a lunar crater that lies near the southwest edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. To the southeast is the flooded crater Billy. The rim of Hansteen is somewhat polygonal in form, especially along the eastern side. There are a few terraces along the northwestern inner wall. The inner floor...
Rima Hesiodus	30.0°S 20.0°W	256 km	Named from nearby crater Hesiodus Hesiodus (crater) Hesiodus is a lunar impact crater located on the southern fringes of Mare Nubium, to the northwest of the crater Pitatus. Starting near the northwest rim of Hesiodus is the wide cleft named Rima Hesiodus. This rille runs 300 km east-southeastward to the Palus EpidemiarumThe low rim of Hesiodus is...
Rima Hyginus	7.4°N 7.8°E	219 km	Named from nearby crater Hyginus Hyginus (crater) Hyginus is a small lunar caldera located at the east end of the Sinus Medii. Its rim is split by a long, linear rille Rima Hyginus that branches to the northwest and to the east-southeast for a total length of 220 kilometers. The crater is deeper than the rille, and lies at the bend where they...
Rima Jansen	14.5°N 29.0°E	35 km	Named from nearby crater Jansen Jansen (crater) Jansen is lunar crater in the north part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located to the east-southeast of the crater Plinius. The rim of Jansen is low and narrow, with a notch along the western edge. The interior is relatively level, which may indicate it has been covered by lava...
Rima Krieger	29.0°N 45.6°W	22 km	Named from nearby crater Krieger Krieger (crater) Krieger is a lunar crater on the eastern part of the Oceanus Procellarum. It is located to the north-northwest of the flooded crater Prinz, and north-northeast of the prominent ray crater Aristarchus. To the northwest lies the small Wollaston....
Rima Mairan	38.0°N 47.0°W	90 km	Named from nearby crater Mairan Mairan (crater) Mairan is a lunar impact crater that is located on a highland peninsula between Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Imbrium to the east. To the north-northeast is the comparably sized crater Sharp. Northwest of Mairan is the heavily eroded Louville....
Rima Marcello	18.6°N 27.7°E	2 km	Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia... masculine name
Rima Marius	16.5°N 48.9°W	121 km	Named from nearby crater Marius Marius (crater) Marius is a lunar crater located on the Oceanus Procellarum. The surface to the west and north of this crater contains a large number of lunar domes spread across an area over a hundred kilometers in diameter that may be of volcanic origin dubbed the Marius Hills...
Rima Messier	1.0°S 45.0°E	100 km	Named from nearby crater Messier Messier (crater) Messier is a relatively young lunar impact crater located on the Mare Fecunditatis. The crater has a discernible oblong shape that is not caused by foreshortening. The longer dimension is oriented in an east–west direction....
Rima Milichius	8.0°N 33.0°W	100 km	Named from nearby crater Milichius Milichius (crater) Milichius is a bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Mare Insularum. To the southeast is the slightly larger Hortensius, a similar formation. Further away due east of Milichius is the prominent and well-known Copernicus....
Rima Oppolzer	1.7°S 1.0°E	94 km	Named from nearby crater Oppolzer Oppolzer (crater) Oppolzer is the remnant of a lunar crater that is located on the southern edge of Sinus Medii, along the meridian of the Moon. It is located within one crater diameter of the origin of the selenographic coordinate system at 0° N, 0° W. Attached to the surviving remnants of the southeast rim is the...
Rima Réaumur	3.0°S 3.0°E	30 km	Named from nearby crater Réaumur Réaumur (crater) Réaumur is the remains of a lunar crater located on the southern edge of Sinus Medii. It lies to the northwest of the large walled plain Hipparchus, and east of Flammarion. To the south is Gyldén, and farther to the south-southwest is Ptolemaeus....
Rima Reiko	18.6°N 27.7°E	2 km	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an... feminine name
Rima Rudolf	19.6°N 29.6°E	8 km	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... masculine name
Rima Schröter	1.0°N 6.0°W	40 km	Named from nearby crater Schröter Schröter (lunar crater) Schröter is a lunar crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum, and named after German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter. It lies to the north of the craters Sömmering and Mösting. To the southeast of the crater rim is a rille named the Rima Schröter...
Rima Sharp	46.7°N 50.5°W	107 km	Named from nearby crater Sharp Sharp (crater) Sharp is a lunar impact crater located to the west of the Sinus Iridum bay of the Mare Imbrium, beyond the Montes Jura range. To the southwest is the crater Mairan. Because of its location and foreshortening, Sharp appears elliptical whereas the crater rim is actually circular.Sharp is surrounded...
Rima Sheepshanks	58.0°N 24.0°E	200 km	Named from nearby crater Sheepshanks Sheepshanks (crater) Sheepshanks is a small lunar crater located near the northern edge of Mare Frigoris. Due south on the opposite shore is the prominent crater Aristoteles while to the north is C. Mayer. Sheepshanks appears somewhat oblong due to foreshortening, but it is actually nearly circular. The inner walls...
Rima Siegfried	25.9°S 103.0°E	14 km	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... masculine name
Rima Suess	6.7°N 48.2°E	165 km	Named from nearby crater Suess Suess (lunar crater) Suess is a small lunar impact crater on the Oceanus Procellarum. It is a circular, cup-shaped feature with a higher albedo than the surroundings. The closest significant crater is Reiner, about 150 kilometers to the west-northwest...
Rima Sung-Mei	24.6°N 11.3°E	4 km	Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... feminine name
Rima T. Mayer	13.0°N 31.0°W	50 km	Named from nearby crater T. Mayer T. Mayer (crater) T. Mayer, or Tobias Mayer, is a lunar crater that is located at the western end of the Montes Carpatus mountain range along the southern edge of Mare Imbrium. To the west is the Oceanus Procellarum, and to the south is Mare Insularum...
Rima Vladimir	25.2°N 0.7°W	14 km	Slavic masculine name
Rima Wan-Yu	20.0°N 31.5°W	12 km	Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... feminine name
Rima Yangel'	16.7°N 4.6°E	30 km	Named from nearby crater Yangel' Yangel' (crater) Yangel is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the irregular terrain to the north of the Mare Vaporum. It is a relatively solitary crater formation, and the nearest larger craters lie more than 100 kilometers distant. To the southeast of Yangel' is the prominent crater Manilius...
Rima Zahia	25.0°N 29.5°W	16 km	Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... feminine name

Rimae

These features are lunar rille systems

Rille

Name	Coordinates	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
Rimae Alphonsus	14.0°S 2.0°W	80 km	Within crater Alphonsus Alphonsus (crater) Alphonsus is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the immediate post-Nectarian era. It is located on the lunar highlands on the eastern end of Mare Nubium, west of the Imbrian Highlands, and slightly overlaps the crater Ptolemaeus to the north. The surface is broken and irregular...
Rimae Apollonius	5.0°N 53.0°E	230 km	Named from nearby crater Apollonius Apollonius (crater) Apollonius is a lunar crater located near the eastern limb of the Moon. It lies in the region of uplands to the west of Mare Undarum and northeast of the Sinus Successus on the Mare Fecunditatis...
Rimae Archimedes	26.6°N 4.1°W	169 km	Named from nearby crater Archimedes Archimedes (crater) Archimedes is a large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium. To the south of the crater extends the Montes Archimedes mountainous region. On the southeastern rim is the Palus Putredinis flooded plain, containing a system of rilles named the Rimae Archimedes that extend over...
Rimae Aristarchus Rimae Aristarchus 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....	26.9°N 47.5°W	121 km	Named from nearby crater Aristarchus Aristarchus (crater) Aristarchus is a prominent lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side. It is considered the brightest of the large formations on the lunar surface, with an albedo nearly double that of most lunar features. The feature is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye,...
Rimae Arzachel	18.0°S 2.0°W	50 km	Within crater Arzachel Arzachel (crater) Arzachel is a relatively young lunar impact crater located in the highlands in the south-central part of the visible Moon, close to the zero meridian . It lies to the south of the crater Alphonsus, and together with Ptolemaeus further north the three form a prominent line of craters to the east of...
Rimae Atlas	47.5°N 43.6°E	60 km	Within crater Atlas Atlas (crater) Atlas is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the southeast of Mare Frigoris. Just to the west is the slightly smaller but still prominent crater Hercules. Northeast of Atlas is the large Endymion....
Rimae Bode	10.0°N 4.0°W	70 km	Named from nearby crater Bode Bode (crater) Bode is a small crater located near the central region of the Moon, to the northwest of the joined craters Pallas and Murchison. It lies on a region of raised surface between the Mare Vaporum to the northeast, Sinus Aestuum to the west, and Sinus Medii to the southeast.This crater is bowl-shaped,...
Rimae Boscovich	9.8°N 11.1°E	40 km	Within crater Boscovich Boscovich (crater) Boscovich is a lunar crater that has been almost completely eroded away by subsequent impacts. It is located to the west-northwest of the crater Julius Caesar, and to the south-southeast of the prominent Manilius. The crater floor has a low albedo, and the dark hue makes it relatively easy to...
Rimae Chacornac	29.0°N 32.0°E	120 km	Named from nearby crater Chacornac Chacornac (crater) Chacornac is an irregular lunar impact crater attached to the southeast rim of the crater Posidonius. It lies just to the east of the Mare Serenitatis, and north of the crater Le Monnier....
Rimae Daniell	37.0°N 26.0°E	200 km	Named from nearby crater Daniell Daniell (crater) Daniell is a lunar impact crater located in the southern half of the Lacus Somniorum. To the south-southeast is the much larger crater Posidonius. Nearby can be found the Rimae Daniell rille system....
Rimae Darwin	19.3°S 69.5°W	143 km	Named from nearby crater Darwin Darwin (lunar crater) Darwin is a lunar crater of the type categorised as a walled plain. It lies in the southeastern part of the Moon, and is sufficiently close to the limb to appear significantly foreshortened when viewed from the Earth. Attached to its southern rim is Lamarck...
Rimae Doppelmayer	25.9°S 45.1°W	162 km	Named from nearby crater Doppelmayer Doppelmayer (crater) Doppelmayer is the remains of a lunar crater that lies on the southwest edge of Mare Humorum. To the south-southeast is another flooded crater designated Lee, and to the southeast is Vitello. Just to the east-northeast of Doppelmayer lies the nearly submerged crater Puiseux.The rim of Doppelmayer...
Rimae Focas	28.0°S 98.0°W	100 km	Named from nearby crater Focas Focas (lunar crater) Focas is a small lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just past the southwestern limb. In this location the crater is occasionally brought into view due to libration, but not much detail can be seen because the crater is viewed from the side.The crater is situated in the wide...
Rimae Fresnel Rimae Fresnel Rimae Fresnel is a 90km-long arcurate escarpment on the Moon at . Both the escarpment and the nearby Promontorium Fresnel were named after the mathematician Augustin Jean Fresnel....	28.0°N 4.0°E	90 km	Named from nearby Promontorium Fresnel
Rimae de Gasparis	24.6°S 51.1°W	93 km	Named from nearby crater de Gasparis De Gasparis (crater) de Gasparis is a lunar crater that is located in the southwest part of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the crater Cavendish and south of Mersenius.The rim of de Gasparis is worn and eroded, and the interior has been flooded by basaltic lava...
Rimae Gassendi	18.0°S 40.0°W	70 km	Within crater Gassendi Gassendi (crater) Gassendi is a large lunar crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum. The formation has been inundated by lava during the formation of the mare, so only the rim and the multiple central peaks remain above the surface. The outer rim is worn and eroded, although it retains a...
Rimae Gerard	46.0°N 84.0°W	100 km	Named from nearby crater Gerard Gerard (crater) Gerard is a lunar crater that lies along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum near the northwest limb of the Moon's near side. It is located to the north-northwest of the crater von Braun, and northeast of Bunsen...
Rimae Goclenius	8.0°S 43.0°E	240 km	Named from nearby crater Goclenius Goclenius (crater) Goclenius is a lunar crater that is located near the west edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It lies to the southeast of the lava-flooded crater Gutenberg, and north of Magelhaens. To the northwest is a parallel rille system that follow a course toward the northwest, running for a length of up to 240...
Rimae Grimaldi	9.0°N 64.0°W	230 km	Named from nearby crater Grimaldi Grimaldi (crater) Grimaldi is a large basin located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the Oceanus Procellarum, and southeast of the crater Riccioli...
Rimae Hypatia	0.4°S 22.4°E	206 km	Named from nearby crater Hypatia Hypatia (crater) Hypatia is a lunar crater that lies along the northwest edge of Sinus Asperitatis, a bay on the southwest edge of Mare Tranquillitatis. The nearest crater with an eponym is Alfraganus to the west-southwest...
Rimae Janssen	45.6°S 40.0°E	114 km	Named from nearby crater Janssen Janssen (lunar crater) Janssen is an ancient impact crater located in the highland region near the southeastern lunar limb. The entire structure has been heavily worn and is marked by many lesser crater impacts. The outer wall is breached in multiple locations, but the outline of the crater rim can still be observed...
Rimae Kopff	17.4°S 89.6°W	41 km	Named from nearby crater Kopff Kopff (crater) Kopff is a lunar crater that lies along the eastern edge of the inner Mare Orientale impact basin, on the western limb of the Moon. In this position the crater is seen from on edge from the Earth, and its visibility is affected by libration...
Rimae Liebig	20.0°S 45.0°W	140 km	Named from nearby crater Liebig Liebig (crater) Liebig is a lunar crater that is located to the south-southeast of the crater Mersenius, and west of the Mare Humorum in the southwest part of the Moon. To the southwest of Liebig is the slightly smaller crater de Gasparis....
Rimae Littrow	22.1°N 29.9°E	115 km	Named from nearby crater Littrow Littrow (crater) Littrow is a lunar crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, on the east edge of Mare Serenitatis. Some distance to the northeast is the prominent crater Römer, while to the south is Vitruvius....
Rimae Maclear	13.0°S 20.0°E	110 km	Named from nearby crater Maclear Maclear (crater) Macleer is a lava-flooded crater on the northwest part of the Mare Tranquillitatis, a lunar mare in the eastern half of the Moon. The crater is located to the southeast of the slightly larger Ross...
Rimae Maestlin	2.0°N 40.0°W	80 km	Named from nearby crater Maestlin Maestlin (crater) Maestlin is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater located near the eastern edge of the lunar Oceanus Procellarum. To the east lies the crater Encke, and to the northeast is Kepler. Just to the southeast of Maestlin is the curved, ridge-like remains of Maestlin R, a walled plain that has been almost...
Rimae Maupertuis	52.0°N 23.0°W	84 km	Named from nearby crater Maupertuis Maupertuis (crater) Maupertuis is the remnant of a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon's near side. It lies in the stretch of rugged terrain north of Sinus Iridum, a bay in the northwestern corner of Mare Imbrium...
Rimae Menelaus	17.2°N 17.9°E	131 km	Named from nearby crater Menelaus Menelaus (crater) Menelaus is a young lunar impact crater located on the southern shore of Mare Serenitatis near the eastern end of the Montes Hæmus mountain range. The crater was named after the jilted king of Sparta from the Iliad. To the southwest is the small crater Auwers, and to the southwest is the even...
Rimae Mersenius	21.5°S 49.2°W	84 km	Named from nearby crater Mersenius Mersenius (crater) Mersenius is a lunar crater that is located to the west of the Mare Humorum, in the southwestern part of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Cavendish, and to the south-southeast lies Liebig. Mersenius is 84 kilometers in diameter and 2.3 kilometers deep...
Rimae Opelt	13.0°S 18.0°W	70 km	Named from nearby crater Opelt Opelt (crater) Opelt is the lava-flooded remnant of a lunar crater on the Mare Nubium. It lies to the north of a similar formation named Gould, and to the northeast of the prominent Bullialdus....
Rimae Palmieri	28.0°S 47.0°W	150 km	Named from nearby crater Palmieri Palmieri (crater) Palmieri is a lunar crater that lies to the southwest of the Mare Humorum, in the southwestern quadrant of the Moon's near side. It lies due south of the crater Liebig and east-northeast of the larger Fourier....
Rimae Parry	6.1°S 16.8°W	82 km	Named from nearby crater Parry Parry (crater) Parry is a lunar crater that is attached to the southeast rim of the walled plain Fra Mauro. Attached to the west and southwest rim of Parry is the crater Bonpland. Due south of Parry is the small crater Tolansky, and farther to the south-southwest is Guericke....
Rimae Petavius	25.9°S 58.9°E	80 km	Named from nearby crater Petavius Petavius (crater) Petavius is a large lunar impact crater located to the southeast of the Mare Fecunditatis, near the southeastern lunar limb. Attached to the northwest rim is the smaller crater Wrottesley. To the southeast are Palitzsch, Vallis Palitzsch, and Hase. Farther to the north is the large crater Vendelinus...
Rimae Pettit	23.0°S 92.0°W	450 km	Named from nearby crater Pettit Pettit (lunar crater) Pettit is a lunar impact crater that lies near the western limb of the Moon. In this location the crater is viewed nearly from the side by observers on Earth, and visibility can be significantly affected by libration effects....
Rimae Pitatus	28.5°S 13.8°W	94 km	Named from nearby crater Pitatus Pitatus (crater) Pitatus is an ancient lunar impact crater located at the southern edge of Mare Nubium. Joined to the northwest rim is the crater Hesiodus, and the two are joined by a narrow cleft. To the south lie the attached Wurzelbauer and Gauricus....
Rimae Plato	52.9°N 3.2°W	87 km	Named from nearby crater Plato Plato (crater) Plato is the lava-filled remains of a lunar impact crater on the moon. It is located on the northeastern shore of the Mare Imbrium, at the western extremity of the Montes Alpes mountain range. In the mare to the south are several rises collectively named the Montes Teneriffe. To the north lies the...
Rimae Plinius	17.9°N 23.6°E	124 km	Named from nearby crater Plinius Plinius (crater) Plinius is a prominent lunar impact crater on the border between Mare Serenitatis to the north and Mare Tranquilitatis to the south. South-southeast of Plinius is the crater Ross, and to the northeast is Dawes. Just to the north is a system of rilles named the Rimae Plinius...
Rimae Posidonius	32.0°N 28.7°E	70 km	Named from nearby crater Posidonius Posidonius (crater) Posidonius is a lunar impact crater that is located on the western edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum. The crater Chacornac is attached to the southeast rim, and to the north is Daniell....
Rimae Prinz	27.0°N 43.0°W	80 km	Named from nearby crater Prinz Prinz (crater) Prinz is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar crater on the Oceanus Procellarum. The formation lies to the southwest of the prominent crater Aristarchus. To the north-northeast is the flooded crater Krieger....
Rimae Ramsden	33.9°S 31.4°W	108 km	Named from nearby crater Ramsden Ramsden (crater) Ramsden is a lunar impact crater located on the western stretch of the Palus Epidemiarum. To the east-southeast is the crater Capuanus, and to the north lies Dunthorne....
Rimae Repsold	50.6°N 81.7°W	166 km	Named from nearby crater Repsold Repsold (crater) Repsold is a lunar crater that is located at the western end of the Oceanus Procellarum. It lies to the northeast of the crater Galvani and southeast of the walled plain Volta. Due to its proximity to the northwestern limb of the Moon, this crater appears highly foreshortened when viewed from the...
Rimae Riccioli	2.0°N 74.0°W	400 km	Named from nearby crater Riccioli Riccioli (crater) Riccioli is a large lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies just to the northwest of the even larger and more prominent crater Grimaldi. To the southwest are the craters Hartwig and Schlüter that lie on the northeastern edge of Montes Cordillera, the ring-shaped range...
Rimae Ritter	3.0°N 18.0°W	100 km	Named from nearby crater Ritter Ritter (crater) Ritter is a lunar crater located near the southwestern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis. It is the northwestern member of a crater pair with Sabine to the southeast. The two rims are separated by a narrow valley only a couple of kilometers wide. To the northwest is the crater Dionysius, and to the...
Rimae Römer	27.0°N 35.0°W	110 km	Named from nearby crater Römer Römer (crater) Römer is a lunar impact crater that is located to the north of the Sinus Amoris in the northeast section of the Moon. It lies in the southwestern part of the mountainous region named the Montes Taurus. To the west-northwest is the crater-bay Le Monnier, on the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis.The...
Rimae Secchi	1.0°N 44.0°W	35 km	Named from nearby crater Secchi Secchi (lunar crater) Secchi is a small lunar crater formation on the northwest edge of Mare Fecunditatis. To the northeast is the crater Taruntius. The western rim is joined with a section of the minor Montes Secchi range. The rim of this crater has been opened in the northern and southern ends, leaving two curved...
Rimae Sirsalis Rimae Sirsalis Rimae Sirsalis is a lunar rille. It is located at 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 highlands almost exclusively...	15.7°S 61.7°W	426 km	Named from nearby crater Sirsalis Sirsalis (crater) Sirsalis is a relatively young lunar impact crater located near the western lunar limb, to the southwest of the Oceanus Procellarum. The crater lies across a ridge that runs in a north–south direction. It has a sharp edge and a low central peak...
Rimae Sosigenes	8.6°N 18.7°E	190 km	Named from nearby crater Sosigenes Sosigenes (crater) Sosigenes is a lunar impact crater on the west edge of Mare Tranquillitatis. It lies to the east of the large walled plain Julius Caesar. The crater rim has a high albedo, making it relatively bright. It has a small central rise at the mid-point of the floor....
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus	21.0°N 10.0°E	90 km	Named from nearby crater Sulpicius Gallus Sulpicius Gallus (crater) Sulpicius Gallus is a small, bowl-shaped lunar crater that lies near the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis. About 10 kilometers to the south and east is the Montes Haemus range that forms the edge of the Serenitatis basin. This crater has a relatively high albedo, with a sharp-edged rim...
Rimae Taruntius	5.5°N 46.5°E	25 km	Named from nearby crater Taruntius Taruntius (crater) Taruntius is a lunar crater on the northwestern edge of Mare Fecunditatis. To the northwest is the lava-flooded crater Lawrence, and to the north lie the craters Watts and da Vinci...
Rimae Theaetetus	33.0°N 6.0°E	50 km	Named from nearby crater Theaetetus Theaetetus (crater) Theaetetus is a lunar impact crater that is located to the southeast of the crater Cassini near the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium. It lies just to the west of the Montes Caucasus range, which forms the eastern shore of the mare. To the southwest is the prominent crater Aristillus.The rim of...
Rimae Triesnecker	4.3°N 4.6°E	215 km	Named from nearby crater Triesnecker Triesnecker (crater) Triesnecker is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the Sinus Medii, near the central part of the Moon's near side. It is located to the north-northwest of the crater Rhaeticus, and to the east-southeast of the flooded Murchison....
Rimae Vasco da Gama	10.0°N 82.0°E	60 km	Named from nearby crater Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama (crater) Vasco da Gama is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. It is named for the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. It lies to the south of the walled plain Einstein, due south of Dalton...
Rimae Zupus	15.0°S 53.0°W	120 km	Named from nearby crater Zupus Zupus (crater) Zupus is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar crater. It is located on a southwestern reach of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the northwest of Mare Humorum. To the north-northeast is the flooded crater Billy, and some distance to the southeast is Mersenius...

Rupes

These are escarpment

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:...

s in the surface.

Name	Coordinates	Dia. Diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...	Name Origin
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....	24.3°S 22.6°E	427.0 km	Altai Mountains
Rupes Boris	30.5°N 33.5°W	4.0 km	Named from nearby crater Boris Boris (crater) Boris is a tiny lunar crater that is located on the Mare Imbrium, to the northeast of the crater Delisle. It lies at the southwest extremity of a sinuous rille that is designated Rima Delisle. This rille meanders to the northeast, towards the crater Heis, before vanishing into the lunar mare.This...
Rupes Cauchy Rupes Cauchy Rupes Cauchy is a 120km-long escarpment at on the surface of the Moon. It is named after the nearby crater Cauchy....	9.0°N 37.0°E	120.0 km	Named from nearby crater Cauchy Cauchy (crater) Cauchy is a small lunar impact crater on the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis. It is circular and symmetric, with a small interior floor at the mid-point of the sloping inner walls. Due to the high albedo of this bowl-shaped formation, it is particularly prominent at full Moon...
Rupes Kelvin Rupes Kelvin Rupes Kelvin is an escarpment near Promontorium Kelvin , at . It is 78.0 km long....	27.3°S 33.1°W	78.0 km	Named from nearby Promontorium Kelvin
Rupes Liebig	25.0°S 46.0°W	180.0 km	Named from nearby crater Liebig Liebig (crater) Liebig is a lunar crater that is located to the south-southeast of the crater Mersenius, and west of the Mare Humorum in the southwest part of the Moon. To the southwest of Liebig is the slightly smaller crater de Gasparis....
Rupes Mercator	31.0°S 22.3°W	93.0 km	Named from nearby crater Mercator Mercator (crater) Mercator is a lunar crater that is located on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium, in the southwest part of the Moon. It is located to the southeast of the crater Campanus, and the two are separated by a narrow, winding valley....
Rupes Recta Rupes Recta Rupes Recta is a linear fault, or rille, on the Moon, in the southeastern part of the Mare Nubium at . The name is Latin for "Straight Fault", although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall...	22.1°S 7.8°W	134.0 km	Latin Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and... for "straight cliff"
Rupes Toscanelli	27.4°N 47.5°W	70.0 km	Named from nearby crater Toscanelli Toscanelli (crater) Toscanelli is a tiny, bowl-shaped lunar crater that is located to the north of the prominent crater Aristarchus, in the northwestern part of the Moon. The crater lies at the southern end of a rille that proceeds towards the north. This rille is part of a nearby system that has the designation Rimae...

Terra

The continental areas between the seas were given comparable names by Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order...

, but were opposite the names used for the seas. Thus there were the lands of sterility (Terra Sterilitatis), heat (Terra Caloris), and liveliness (Terra Vitae). However these names for the highland regions are no longer used on recent maps, and Terrae are not officially recognized as standard lunar nomenclature by the International Astronomical Union

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Name	Name Origin	Near side position
Insula Ventorum	Island of Winds
Peninsula Fulminu	Peninsula of Thunder	Between Mare Humorum Mare Humorum Mare Humorum is a lunar mare. The impact basin it is located in is 825 kilometers across. It was not sampled by the Apollo program, so a precise age has not been determined. However, geological mapping indicates that it is intermediate in age between the Imbrium and Nectaris Basins, suggesting an... and Oceanus Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Earth's Moon. Its name derives from the old superstition that its appearance during the second quarter heralded bad weather... .
Terra Caloris	Land of Heat	Southwest rim of the near side.
Terra Fertilitatis	Land of Fertility	Southeastern rim of the near side.
Terra Grandinis	Land of Hail	Northeast border of Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago... .
Terra Manna	Land of Manna Manna Manna or Manna wa Salwa , sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is the name of an edible substance that God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert according to the Bible.It was said to be sweet to the taste, like honey....	Region between Mare Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The mare material within the basin consists of basalt formed in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The surrounding mountains are thought to be of the Lower Imbrian epoch, but... , Mare Fecunditatis Mare Fecunditatis Mare Fecunditatis is a lunar mare which is 840 km in diameter. The Fecuditatis basin formed in the Pre-Nectarian epoch, while the basin material surrounding the mare is of the... and Mare Nectaris Mare Nectaris The Sea of Nectar is a small lunar mare or sea located between the Sea of Tranquillity and the Sea of Fecundity . Montes Pyrenaeus borders the mare to the west and the large crater near the south center of the mare is known as Rosse... .
Terra Niuiu (Terra Nivium Terra Nivium Terra Nivium is a roughly triangular highland region on the Moon. In his Almagestum novum, the notable selenographer Giovanni Riccioli named the various highland regions terrae... )	Land of Snows	Southeast border of Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago... .
Terra Pruinæ	Land of Frost	Northwest border of Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago... .
Terra Sanitatis	Land of Healthiness	Central region between Mare Nubium Mare Nubium Mare Nubium is a lunar mare in the Nubium basin on the Moon's near side. The mare is located just to the southeast of Oceanus Procellarum. The actual basin is believed to be of Pre-Nectarian system, with the surrounding basin material being of the Lower Imbrian epoch. The mare material is of the... and Mare Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The mare material within the basin consists of basalt formed in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The surrounding mountains are thought to be of the Lower Imbrian epoch, but... .
Terra Siccitatis	Land of Dryness	Northwest rim of the near side.
Terra Sterilitatis	Land of Sterility
Terra Vigoris	Land of Cheerfulness	Region southeast of Mare Crisium Mare Crisium Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. This basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago. This mare is in diameter, and 176,000 km2 in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridges... .
Terra Vitæ	Land of Liveliness	Northeast rim of the near side.

Craters

The large majority of these features are impact 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...

s. The crater nomenclature

Planetary nomenclature

Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed. The task of assigning official names to features is taken up by the International...

is governed by the International Astronomical Union

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, and this listing only includes features that are officially recognized by that scientific society.

The lunar craters are listed in the following subsections. Where a formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

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Valleys

'Water Features'

Maria and Oceanus

Lacus

Sinus and Paludes

Mountains

Mountain ranges

Other Features

Albedo

Catena

Dorsa

Dorsum

Promontorium

Rima

Rimae

Rupes

Terra

Craters

See also

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