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Feature
name |
Significance |
Diameter
(km) |
| 1 |
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Moon |
Large satellite |
3,476 |
| 2 |
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Earthshine |
Twice reflected Sunlight |
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| 3 |
 |
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Mare/highland dichotomy |
Two materials with distinct compositions |
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| 4 |
 |
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Apennines |
Imbrium basin rim |
400 |
| 5 |
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Copernicus |
Archetypal large complex crater |
93 |
| 6 |
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Tycho |
Large rayed crater with impact melts |
102 |
| 7 |
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Altai Scarp |
Nectaris basin rim |
425 |
| 8 |
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Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina |
Crater sequence illustrating stages of degradation |
110 |
| 9 |
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Clavius |
Lacks basin featrues in spite of its size |
245 |
| 10 |
 |
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Mare Crisium |
Mare contained in large circular basin |
540 |
| 11 |
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Aristarchus |
Very bright crater with dark bands on its walls |
40 |
| 12 |
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Proclus |
Oblique-impact rays |
28 |
| 13 |
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Gassendi |
Floor-fractured Crater |
101 |
| 14 |
 |
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Sinus Iridium |
Very large crater with missing rim |
260 |
| 15 |
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Straight Wall |
Best example of a lunar fault |
130 |
| 16 |
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Petavius |
Crater with domed and fractured floor |
188 |
| 17 |
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Schröter's Valley |
Giant sinuous rille |
168 |
| 18 |
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Mare Serenitatis dark edges |
Distinct mare areas with different compositions |
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| 19 |
 |
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Alpine Valley |
Lunar graben |
165 |
| 20 |
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Posidonius |
Floor-fractured crater |
95 |
| 21 |
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Fracastorius |
Crater with subsided and fractured floor |
112 |
| 22 |
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Aristarchus Plateau |
Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics |
150 |
| 23 |
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Pico |
Isolated Imbrium basin-ring fragment |
25 |
| 24 |
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Hyginus Rille |
Rille containing rimless collapse pits |
220 |
| 25 |
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Messier and Messier A |
Oblique ricochet-impact pair |
11 |
| 26 |
 |
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Mare Frigoris |
Arcuate mare of uncertain origin |
1,600 |
| 27 |
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Archimedes |
Large crater lacking central peak |
83 |
| 28 |
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Hipparchus |
Subject of first drawing of a single crater |
150 |
| 29 |
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Aridaeus Rille |
Long, linear graben |
250 |
| 30 |
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Schiller |
Possible oblique impact |
180 |
| 31 |
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Taruntius |
Young floor-fractured crater |
56 |
| 32 |
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Arago Alpha and Beta |
Volcanic domes |
26 |
| 33 |
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Serpentine Bridge |
Basin inner-ring segment |
155 |
| 34 |
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Lacus Mortis |
Strange crater with rille and ridge |
152 |
| 35 |
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Triesnecker Rilles |
Rille Family |
215 |
| 36 |
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Grimaldi basin |
A small two-ring basin |
410 |
| 37 |
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Bailly |
Barely discernible basin |
303 |
| 38 |
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Sabine and Ritter |
Possible twin impacts |
30 |
| 39 |
 |
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Schickard |
Crater floor with Orientale basin ejecta stripe |
206 |
| 40 |
|
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Janssen Rille |
Rare examle of a highland rille |
199 |
| 41 |
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Bessel ray |
Ray of uncertain origin near Bessel |
|
| 42 |
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Marius Hills |
Complex of volcanic domes and hills |
125 |
| 43 |
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Wargentin |
A crater filled to the rim with lava or ejecta |
84 |
| 44 |
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Mersenius |
Domed floor cut by secondary craters |
84 |
| 45 |
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Maurolycus |
Region of saturation cratering |
114 |
| 46 |
 |
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Regiomontanus central peak |
Possible volcanic peak |
108 |
| 47 |
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Alphonsus dark spots |
Dark-halo eruptions on crater floor |
119 |
| 48 |
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Cauchy region |
fault, rilles and domes |
130 |
| 49 |
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Gruithuisen Delta and Gamma |
Volcanic domes formed with viscous lavas |
20 |
| 50 |
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Cayley Plains |
Light, smooth plains of uncertain origin |
14 |
| 51 |
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Davy crater chain |
Result of comet-fragment impacts |
34 |
| 52 |
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Crüger |
Possible volcanic caldera |
45 |
| 53 |
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Lamont |
Possible buried basin |
106 |
| 54 |
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Hippalus Rilles |
Rilles concentric to Humorum basin |
240 |
| 55 |
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Baco |
Unusually crater floor and surrounding |
69 |
| 56 |
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Mare Australe |
A partially flooded ancient basin |
132 |
| 57 |
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Reiner Gamma |
Conspicuous swirl and magnetic anomaly |
70 |
| 58 |
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Rheita Valley
|
Basin secondary-crater chain |
445 |
| 59 |
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Schiller-Zucchius basin |
Badly degraded overlooked basin |
335 |
| 60 |
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Kies Pi |
Volcanic dome |
45 |
| 61 |
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Mösting A |
Simple crater close to center of lunar near side |
13 |
| 62 |
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Rümker Hills |
Large volcanic dome |
70 |
| 63 |
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Imbrium sculpture |
Basin ejecta near and overlying Bscovich and Julius Caesar |
|
| 64 |
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Descartes |
Apollo 16 landing site; putative region of highland
volcanism |
|
| 65 |
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Hortensius domes |
Dome field north of Hortensius |
10 |
| 66 |
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Hadley Rille |
Lava channel near Apollo 15 landing site |
|
| 67 |
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Fra Mauro formation |
Apollo 14 landing site on Imbrium ejecta |
|
| 68 |
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Flamsteed P |
Proposed young volcanic crater, Surveyor 1 landing site |
|
| 69 |
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Copernicus secondary craters |
Rays and craterlets |
4 |
| 70 |
 |
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Humbodtianum basin |
Multi-ring impact basin |
650 |
| 71 |
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Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle |
Ash eruptions northwest of crater |
12 |
| 72 |
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Atlas dark-halo craters |
Explosive volcanic pits on the floor of Atlas |
87 |
| 73 |
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Smythii basin |
Difficult-to-observe basin scarp and mare |
740 |
| 74 |
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Copernicus H |
Dark-halo impact crater |
5 |
| 75 |
 |
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Ptolemaeus B |
Saucerlike depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus |
164 |
| 76 |
 |
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W. Bond |
Large crater degraded by Imbrium ejecta |
158 |
| 77 |
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Sirsalis Rille |
Procellarum basin radial rilles |
425 |
| 78 |
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Lambert R |
A buried "ghost" crater |
54 |
| 79 |
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Sinus Aestuum |
Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit |
90 |
| 80 |
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Orientale basin |
Youngest large impact basin |
930 |
| 81 |
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Hesiodus A |
Concentric crater |
15 |
| 82 |
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Linné |
Small crater once thought to have disappeared |
2.4 |
| 83 |
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Plato craterlets |
Crater pits at limits fo detection |
109 |
| 84 |
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Pitatus |
Crater with concentric rilles |
97 |
| 85 |
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Langrenus rays |
Aged ray system |
132 |
| 86 |
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Prinz Rilles |
Rille system near the crter Prinz |
46 |
| 87 |
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Humboldt |
Crater with central peaks and dark spots |
189 |
| 88 |
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Peary |
Difficult-to-observe polar crater |
104 |
| 89 |
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Valentine Dome |
Volcanic Dome |
30 |
| 90 |
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Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins |
Small craters near the Apollo 11 landing site |
3 |
| 91 |
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De Gasparis Rilles |
Area with many rilles |
30 |
| 92 |
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Gylden Valley |
Part of the Imbrium radial sculpture |
47 |
| 93 |
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Dionysius rays |
Unusual and rare dark rays |
18 |
| 94 |
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Drygalski |
Large south-pole region crater |
149 |
| 95 |
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Procellarum basin |
The Moon´s biggest basin? |
3,200 |
| 96 |
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Leibnitz Mountains |
Rim of South Pole-Aitken basin |
|
| 97 |
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Inghirami Valley |
Orientale basin ejecta |
140 |
| 98 |
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Imbrium lava flows |
Mare lava-flow boundaries |
|
|
99
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Ina caldera |
D-shaped young volcanic caldera |
3 |
|
100
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Mare Marginis swirls |
Possible magnetic field-deposits |
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