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