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Feature Name | Feature Type | Origin | Center Point (Lat/Lon) |
Abedin | Crater | Zainul; Bangladeshi painter and printmaker (1914-1976). | 61.732,-10.6611 |
Abeeso Facula | Facula | Somali word for snake. | 21.7,145.4 |
Abu Nuwas | Crater | Arab poet (c. 1756-1810). | 17.6291,-21.1888 |
Adventure Rupes | Rupes | English; one of Cook's ships on second voyage to the Pacific, 1772-75. | -65.4806,-65.3002 |
Africanus Horton | Crater | (James Beale); Sierra Leonean author, folklorist (1835-1883). | -50.9615,-41.1949 |
Agwo Facula | Facula | Igbo (Southeastern Nigeria) word for snake. | 22.4,146.3 |
Ahmad Baba | Crater | Abu-a;-Abbas Aj,Ad Obm Aj,Ad a;-Takruri Al-Massufi; Sudanese writer (1556-1627). | 58.3264,-128.351 |
Ailey | Crater | Alvin; American dancer and choreographer (1931-1989). | 45.5848,177.923 |
Aksakov | Crater | Sergey; Russian author (1791-1859). | 34.7128,-78.7446 |
Akutagawa | Crater | Ryunosuke; Japanese writer (1892-1927). | 48.252,-141.091 |
Al Akhtal | Crater | Arab poet (c. 640-710). | 59.3831,-99.7051 |
Al Hamadhani | Crater | Arab writer (d. 1007). | 39.1914,-91.7601 |
Al Jahiz | Crater | Arab author (d. 869). | 1.3624,-21.7645 |
Alencar | Crater | Jose de; Brazilian novelist (1829-1877). | -63.6369,-103.778 |
Alpha Crucis Rupes | Rupes | Brazilian; an oceanographic research vessel investigating the role of the South Atlantic in global climate change, as well as studying marine biodiversity. | -12.4824,131.691 |
Altair Rupes | Rupes | Mexican; oceanographic vessel used for academic and federal research in the Pacific (2000s). | -70.4846,173.506 |
Alver | Crater | Betti; Estonian poet (1906-1989). | -66.9709,77.2464 |
Alvin Rupes | Rupes | American; U.S.Navy's first deep submergence research vessel commissioned in 1964, designed specifically for oceanographic research. | 8.2951,151.281 |
Amaral | Crater | Tarsila do; Brazilian painter (1886-1973). | -26.4914,117.824 |
Amaru Facula | Facula | Quechua word for snake. | -49.8,10.5 |
Amru Al Qays | Crater | Arab poet (pre-Islamic). | 12.4276,-176.115 |
Andal | Crater | 10th century Tamil (South Indian) writer. | -47.5247,-37.7116 |
Aneirin | Crater | Welsh poet (fl. 6th century). | -27.4658,-2.6763 |
Angelou | Crater | Maya, American author and poet (1928 - 2014). | 80.32,-66.71 |
Angkor Vallis | Vallis | Ancient city in Cambodia. | 57.2833,114.042 |
Anguissola | Crater | Sofonisba; Italian painter (1532-1625) | 80.69,142.65 |
Antoniadi Dorsum | Dorsum | Eugene M.; Greco-French astronomer, defined classical nomenclature for albedo features of Mars (1870-1944). | 27.1971,-29.6507 |
Anyte | Crater | Anyte of Tegea, Greek poet (early 3rd centrury BC). | 79.5,149.33 |
Aparangi Planitia | Planitia | Maori word for the planet Mercury. | 6.7,70.62 |
Apollodorus | Crater | Apollodorus of Damascus; Greek architect (2nd century AD). | 30.5376,163.284 |
Apollonia | Albedo Feature | Albedo name for H-5, Hokusai region. | 45.0001,45.0001 |
Arecibo Catena | Catena | Radio telescope in Puerto Rico. | -27.577,-28.2946 |
Aristoxenus | Crater | Greek philosopher and musical theorist (fl. 4th century B.C.). | 83.9348,-17.4574 |
Astrolabe Rupes | Rupes | French; d'Urville's ship to explore Antarctica, 1838-40. | -42.5537,-70.8975 |
Asvaghosa | Crater | Indian philosopher and poet (fl. A.D. 80-150). | 10.6107,-21.4937 |
Atget | Crater | Eugène; French photographer (1857-1927). | 25.5724,166.375 |
Aurora | Albedo Feature | Albedo name for H-2, Victoria region. | 45.0001,-89.9999 |
Australia | Albedo Feature | Albedo name for H-15, Bach region. | -72.5,0.0001 |
Bach | Crater | J. S.; German composer (1685-1750). | -69.8554,-103.006 |
Bagryana | Crater | Elisaveta; Bulgarian poet (1893-1991). | -3.8892,76.266 |
Balagtas | Crater | F.; Philippino writer (1788-1862). | -22.563,-13.9009 |
Balanchine | Crater | George (Giorgi Balanchivadze); American choreographer of Georgian-Russian origin (1904-1983). | 38.4689,175.517 |
Balzac | Crater | Honore de; French novelist (1799-1850). | 10.6226,-144.666 |
Baranauskas | Crater | Antanas; Lithuanian poet (1835-1902). | 50.7266,-39.7579 |
Barma | Crater | Yakovlev; 16th Century Russian architect. | -40.9317,-163.493 |
Barney | Crater | Natalie Clifford; American-French playwright, poet, and novelist (1876-1972). | -11.6895,59.7101 |
Bartok | Crater | Bela; Hungarian composer (1881-1945). | -29.2204,-135.064 |
Basho | Crater | Matsuo; Japanese poet (1644-1694). | -32.3923,-170.453 |
Beagle Rupes | Rupes | British; naval vessel aboard which Charles Darwin served as a naturalist on a surveying expedition, 1831-1836. | -3.2243,100.757 |
Bechet | Crater | Sidney; American jazz musician and composer (1897-1959). | 83.0777,-93.6628 |
Beckett | Crater | Clarice; Australian painter (1887-1935). | -40.2014,111.294 |
Beethoven | Crater | Ludwig van; German composer of Flemish descent (1770-1827). | -20.8625,-124.21 |
Bek | Crater | Egyptian sculptor (active c. 1340 B.C.). | 21.1606,-50.987 |
Belgica Rupes | Rupes | Belgian; ship used for an expedition to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole in 1898, first ship to winter in Antarctica. | -50.4491,63.7645 |
Belinskij | Crater | Vissarion Grigoryevich; Russian literary critic and journalist (1811-1848). | -77.0939,-103.925 |
Bellini | Crater | Giovanni; Italian painter (1430-1516). | -33.77,87.17 |
Bello | Crater | Andres; Venezuelan poet and scholar (1781-1865). | -18.8661,-120.182 |
Benoit | Crater | Rigaud; Haitian painter (1911-1987). | 7.4832,104.353 |
Berkel | Crater | Sabri; Turkish painter and printmaker (1909-1993). | -13.7259,26.8101 |
Berlioz | Crater | Hector; French composer (1803-1869). | 79.363,38.6616 |
Bernini | Crater | Gian Lorenzo; Italian sculptor and architect (1598-1680). | -80.3188,-140.97 |
Berry | Crater | Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck": American singer and songwriter (1926-2017). | 70.57,112.73 |
Bibilava Faculae | Facula | Malagasy (Madagascar) word for snake. | 16.4,157.2 |
Bitin Facula | Facula | Cebuano (S. Philippines) word for snake. | -51.55,-28.45 |
Bjornson | Crater | Bjornstjerne; Norwegian poet and dramatist (1832-1910). | 73.107,-113.988 |
Blossom Rupes | Rupes | English; ship used for an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, 1825-1827. | -3.0432,89.8484 |
Boccaccio | Crater | Giovanni; Italian poet and novelist (1313-1375). | -80.9899,-23.0069 |
Boethius | Crater | Anicius Manlius Severinus; Roman scholar (c. A.D. 470-524). | -0.9765,-73.6433 |
Borea | Albedo Feature | Albedo name for H-1, Borealis region. | 75.0001,0.0001 |
Borealis Planitia | Planitia | Northern plain; from classical albedo name for quadrangle. | 67.3,32.6 |
Borobudur Fossae | Fossa | A 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, in Central Java, Indonesia, consisting of nine stacked platforms and topped by a central dome. | -32.77,88.5 |
Botticelli | Crater | Sandro; Italian painter (1445-1510). | 63.6306,-112.348 |
Boznanska | Crater | Olga; Polish painter (1865-1940). | 59.6448,-40.7549 |
Brahms | Crater | Johannes; German composer and pianist (1833-1897). | 58.3234,-177.358 |
Bramante | Crater | Donato; Italian architect (1444-1514). | -47.2289,-61.5546 |
Bronte | Crater | Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), Anne (1820-1849); English novelists, and Branwell (1817-1848); author and painter. | 38.3918,-127.057 |
Brooks | Crater | Gwendolyn; American poet and novelist (1917-2000). | -45.217,-168.015 |
Bruegel | Crater | Pieter; Flemish painter (1525-1569). | 49.7274,-109.456 |
Brunelleschi | Crater | Filippo; Florentine architect (1377-1446). | -8.9379,-22.5108 |
Budh Planitia | Planitia | Hindu word for Mercury. | 19.5245,-150.462 |
Bunin | Crater | Ivan, Russian author of prose and poetry; first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. (1861 - 1941). | 84.47,-141.76 |
Burke | Crater | Mary William Ethelbert Appleton “Billie”; American performing artist (1884-1970). | 85.9085,-171.56 |
Burns | Crater | Robert; Scottish national poet (1759-1796). | 54.1027,-117.374 |
Byron | Crater | G. G.; English poet (1788-1824). | -8.4358,-33.0038 |
Caduceata | Albedo Feature | Albedo name for H-3, Shakespeare region. | 45.0001,-135 |
Cahokia Vallis | Vallis | Cahokia Mounds, ancient city in southern Illinois, USA. | 65.5471,126.942 |
Calder | Crater | Alexander; American sculptor (1898-1976). | 3.5143,12.7469 |
Callicrates | Crater | Greek architect (5th century B.C.). | -66.515,-30.3734 |
Caloris Montes | Mons | Hot mountains; surface temperature hottest near this position. | 31.4641,-174.153 |
Caloris Planitia | Planitia | Hot plain; surface temperature hottest near this position. | 31.6525,161.985 |
Calvino | Crater | Italo; Italian writer (1923-1985). | -3.9913,-56.0324 |
Calypso Rupes | Rupes | French; originally commissioned in 1942 as a minesweeper, Calypso was purchased by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and used for oceanographic studies in 1950-1996. | 19.5316,43.5213 |
Camoes | Crater | Luiz (Vas) de; Portuguese poet (c. 1524-1580). | -71.4193,-68.3909 |
Canova | Crater | Antonio, marchese d’Ischia; Italian sculptor (1757-1822). | 25.6,-3.71 |
Capote | Crater | Truman; American author (1924-1984). | -21.0965,72.4131 |
Caral Vallis | Vallis | Ancient city in the Supe Valley, Peru. | 62.6583,129.29 |
Caravaggio | Crater | Michelangelo Merisi; Italian painter (1571-1610). | 3.175,87.2391 |
Carducci | Crater | Giosue; Italian poet (1835-1907). | -36.5405,-90.3887 |
Carleton | Crater | William; Irish writer (1794-1869). | -52.2,56.6 |
Carnegie Rupes | Rupes | American; iron-free vessel used to conduct magnetic surveys from 1909 to 1928. | 58.5243,-53.2463 |
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