Lists of features:- Rupes (Escarpments)

NASA (image by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

Rupes on the Moon
These are escarpments on the surface.
(Escarpment face of a slope broken by a fault.)


Latin Name / English Name / Latitude Longitude / Diameter km / miles / map (from USGS/CartoComos)

  • Rupes Altai – Altai Mountains / 24.3°S 22.6°E / 427.0 km / 267 miles / map
  • Rupes Boris – Crater Boris / 30.5°N 33.5°W / 4.0 km / 3 miles / map
  • Rupes Cauchy – Crater Cauchy / 9.0°N 37.0°E / 120.0 km / 75 miles / map
  • Rupes Kelvin – Promontorium Kelvin / 27.3°S 33.1°W / 78.0 km / 49 miles / map
  • Rupes Liebig – Crater Liebig / 25.0°S 46.0°W / 180.0 km / 113 miles / map
  • Rupes Mercator – Crater Mercator / 31.0°S 22.3°W / 93.0 km / 58 miles / map
  • Rupes Recta – Latin for “straight cliff” / 22.1°S 7.8°W / 134.0 km / 84 miles / map
  • Rupes Toscanelli – Crater Toscanelli / 27.4°N 47.5°W / 70.0 km / 44 miles / map

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Moon Map – Lists of features

The Moon’s surface is covered in many interesting geological features,
in addition to mountains, valleys and craters.
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Catena  –  chain of craters
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Dorsa  – wrinkle-ridge systems

Dorsum  –  wrinkle-Ridge

Lunar Seas & Ocean – Maria
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Lacus  –  lake

Palus  –  marshes

Promontorium  –  cape or headland

Rima  –  rilles
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Rimae  –  rille systems

Rupes  –  escarpments

Sinus  –  bay
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Terra  –  seas

Vallis  –  valleys
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Named Features – scale maps

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