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List of craters on Mars, the Glossary

This is a list of craters on Mars.^[1]

60 relations: Antoniadi (Martian crater), Argyre Planitia, Audouin Dollfus, Callisto (moon), Cassini (Martian crater), Ceres (dwarf planet), Christiaan Huygens, Copernicus (Martian crater), Dione (moon), E. M. Antoniadi, Earth, Enceladus, Eponym, Europa (moon), Ganymede (moon), Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Hellas Planitia, Herschel (Martian crater), Huygens (crater), Iapetus (moon), Impact crater, International Astronomical Union, Isaac Newton, Isidis Planitia, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, John Herschel, List of catenae on Mars, List of craters in the Solar System, List of craters on Callisto, List of craters on Europa, List of craters on Ganymede, List of craters on Mars: A–G, List of craters on Mars: H–N, List of craters on Mars: O–Z, List of craters on Mercury, List of craters on the Moon, List of craters on Venus, List of mountains on Mars, Marian Albertovich Kowalski, Mars, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Moon, Newton (Martian crater), Nicolaus Copernicus, Opportunity (rover), Rhea (moon), Ronald Greeley, Schiaparelli (Martian crater), ... Expand index (10 more) »
Lists of impact craters

Antoniadi (Martian crater)

Antoniadi is a crater on Syrtis Major Planum in the Syrtis Major quadrangle, Mars, located at 21.5° north latitude and 299.2° west longitude. List of craters on Mars and Antoniadi (Martian crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Argyre Planitia

Argyre Planitia is a plain located within the impact basin Argyre in the southern highlands of Mars. List of craters on Mars and Argyre Planitia are impact craters on Mars.

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Audouin Dollfus

Audouin Charles Dollfus (12 November 1924 – 1 October 2010) was a French astronomer and aeronaut, specialist in studies of the Solar System and discoverer of Janus, a moon of Saturn.

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Callisto (moon)

Callisto, or Jupiter IV, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede.

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Cassini (Martian crater)

Cassini is a crater on Mars named in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini. List of craters on Mars and Cassini (Martian crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Ceres (dwarf planet)

Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, (also spelled Huyghens; Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

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Copernicus (Martian crater)

Copernicus is a large crater on Mars, with a diameter close to 300 km. List of craters on Mars and Copernicus (Martian crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Dione (moon)

Dione, also designated Saturn IV, is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn.

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E. M. Antoniadi

Eugène Michel Antoniadi (Greek: Ευγένιος Αντωνιάδης; 1 March 1870 – 10 February 1944) was a Greek-French astronomer.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Enceladus

Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 19th-largest in the Solar System.

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Eponym

An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.

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Europa (moon)

Europa, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter.

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Ganymede (moon)

Ganymede, or Jupiter III, is the largest and most massive natural satellite of Jupiter and in the Solar System.

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Gérard de Vaucouleurs

Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (25 April 1918 – 7 October 1995) was a French astronomer best known for his studies of galaxies.

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer.

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Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.

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Hellas Planitia

Hellas Planitia is a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin Hellas located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. List of craters on Mars and Hellas Planitia are impact craters on Mars.

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Herschel (Martian crater)

Herschel is an impact crater in Mars's southern hemisphere. List of craters on Mars and Herschel (Martian crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Huygens (crater)

Huygens is an impact crater on Mars named in honour of the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens. List of craters on Mars and Huygens (crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Iapetus (moon)

Iapetus is the outermost of Saturn's large moons.

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Impact crater

An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.

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Isidis Planitia

Isidis Planitia is a plain located within a giant impact basin on Mars, located partly in the Syrtis Major quadrangle and partly in the Amenthes quadrangle. List of craters on Mars and Isidis Planitia are impact craters on Mars.

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Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (30 August 1745, Erfurt – 29 August 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

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John Herschel

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work.

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List of catenae on Mars

This is a list of named catenae on Mars. List of craters on Mars and list of catenae on Mars are impact craters on Mars.

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List of craters in the Solar System

This is a list of officially named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. List of craters on Mars and list of craters in the Solar System are lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Callisto

This is a list of named craters on Callisto, one of the many moons of Jupiter, the most heavily cratered natural satellite in the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Callisto). List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Callisto are lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Europa

This is a list of craters on Europa. List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Europa are lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Ganymede

Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and has a hard surface with many craters. List of craters on Mars and List of craters on Ganymede are lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Mars: A–G

This is a partial list of craters on Mars. List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Mars: A–G are impact craters on Mars and lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Mars: H–N

This is a partial list of craters on Mars. List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Mars: H–N are impact craters on Mars and lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Mars: O–Z

This is a list of craters on Mars. List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Mars: O–Z are impact craters on Mars and lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Mercury

This is a list of named craters on Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Mercury). List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Mercury are lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on the Moon

This is a list of named lunar craters. List of craters on Mars and list of craters on the Moon are lists of impact craters.

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List of craters on Venus

This is a list of craters on Venus, named by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. List of craters on Mars and list of craters on Venus are lists of impact craters.

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List of mountains on Mars

comparison of Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) to three Earth peaks This is a list of all named mountains on Mars.

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Marian Albertovich Kowalski

Marian Albertovich Kowalski (Мариан Альбертович Ковальский) (15 August 1821 or 15 October 1821 – 28 May 1884 or 9 July 1884) was a Polish-Russian astronomer.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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Mikhail Tikhonravov

Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov (July 29, 1900 – March 3, 1974) was a Soviet engineer who was a pioneer of spacecraft design and rocketry.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Newton (Martian crater)

Newton is a large crater on Mars, with a diameter close to 300 km. List of craters on Mars and Newton (Martian crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

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Opportunity (rover)

Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018.

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Rhea (moon)

Rhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth-largest moon in the Solar System, with a surface area that is comparable to the area of Australia.

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Ronald Greeley

Ronald Greeley (August 25, 1939 – October 27, 2011) was a Regents’ Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), and Principal Investigator of the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center.

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Schiaparelli (Martian crater)

Schiaparelli is an impact crater on Mars, located near the planet's equator at latitude 3° south and longitude 344° in the Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle. List of craters on Mars and Schiaparelli (Martian crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Semi-major and semi-minor axes

In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely separated points of the perimeter.

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Smith

Smith may refer to.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Tethys (moon)

Tethys, or Saturn III, is the fifth-largest moon of Saturn, measuring about across.

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Tikhonravov (crater)

Tikhonravov is a large, eroded crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars. List of craters on Mars and Tikhonravov (crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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Utopia Planitia

Utopia Planitia (Greek and Latin: "Utopia Land Plain") is a large plain within Utopia, the largest recognized impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System with an estimated diameter of. List of craters on Mars and Utopia Planitia are impact craters on Mars.

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Victoria (crater)

Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. List of craters on Mars and Victoria (crater) are impact craters on Mars.

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William Herschel

Frederick William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer.

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4 Vesta

Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars

Also known as Craters of Mars, Craters on Mars, Impact Craters on Mars, Impact crater on Mars, Lambert (crater on Mars), List of Mars craters, List of Martian craters, List of craters in Mars, List of craters of Mars, List of craters on Mars named after people, List of people with craters on Mars named after them, List of places with craters on Mars named after them, Mars craters.

, Science fiction, Semi-major and semi-minor axes, Smith, Solar System, Tethys (moon), Tikhonravov (crater), Utopia Planitia, Victoria (crater), William Herschel, 4 Vesta.

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