Lists of features:- Rimae (Rille Systems)

Rimae on the Moon
These features are the Lunar Rille System.


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

  • Rimae Alphonsus – Crater Alphonsus / 14.0°S 2.0°W/  80 km / 50 miles / map
  • Rimae Apollonius – Crater Apollonius / 5.0°N 53.0°E / 230 km / 144 miles / map
  • Rimae Archimedes – Crater Archimedes / 26.6°N 4.1°W / 169 km / 107 miles / map
  • Rimae Aristarchus – Crater Aristarchus / 26.9°N 47.5°W / 121 km / 76 miles / map
  • Rimae Arzachel – Crater Arzachel / 18.0°S 2.0°W / 50 km / 31 miles / map
  • Rimae Atlas – Crater Atlas / 47.5°N 43.6°E /60 km / 38 miles / map
  • Rimae Bode – Crater Bode / 10.0°N 4.0°W / 70 km / 44 miles / map
  • Rimae Boscovich – Crater Boscovich / 9.8°N 11.1°E / 40 km / 25 miles / map
  • Rimae Chacornac – Crater Chacornac / 29.0°N 32.0°E / 120 km / 75 miles / map
  • Rimae Daniell – Crater Daniell / 37.0°N 26.0°E / 200 km / 125 miles / map
  • Rimae Darwin – Crater Darwin / 19.3°S 69.5°W / 143 km / 89 miles / map
  • Rimae Doppelmayer – Crater Doppelmayer / 25.9°S 45.1°W / 162 km / 101 miles / map
  • Rimae Focas – Crater Focas / 28.0°S 98.0°W / 100 km / 63 miles / map
  • Rimae Fresnel – Crater Promontorium Fresnel / 28.0°N 4.0°E / 90 km / 57 miles / map
  • Rimae de Gasparis – Crater Gassendi / 18.0°S 40.0°W / 70 km / 44 miles / map
  • Rimae Gerard – Crater Gerard / 46.0°N 84.0°W / 100 km / 63 miles / map
  • Rimae Goclenius – Crater Goclenius / 8.0°S 43.0°E / 240 km / 150 miles / map
  • Rimae Grimaldi – Crater Grimaldi / 9.0°N 64.0°W / 230 km / 144 miles / map
  • Rimae Hypatia – Crater Hypatia / 0.4°S 22.4°E / 206 km / 129 miles / map
  • Rimae Janssen – Crater Janssen / 45.6°S 40.0°E / 114 km / 71 miles / map
  • Rimae Kopff – Crater Kopff / 17.4°S 89.6°W / 41 km / 26 miles / map
  • Rimae Liebig – Crater Liebig / 20.0°S 45.0°W / 140 km / 88 miles / map
  • Rimae Littrow – Crater Littrow / 22.1°N 29.9°E / 115 km / 72 miles / map
  • Rimae Maclear – Crater Maclear / 13.0°S 20.0°E / 110 km / 69 miles / map
  • Rimae Maestlin – Crater Maestlin / 2.0°N 40.0°W / 80 km / 50 miles / map
  • Rimae Maupertuis – Crater Maupertuis / 52.0°N 23.0°W / 84 km / 53 miles / map
  • Rimae Menelaus – Crater Menelaus / 17.2°N 17.9°E / 131 km / 82 miles / map
  • Rimae Mersenius – Crater Mersenius / 21.5°S 49.2°W / 84 km / 53 miles / map
  • Rimae Opelt – Crater Opelt / 13.0°S 18.0°W / 70 km / 44 miles / map
  • Rimae Palmieri – Crater Palmieri / 28.0°S 47.0°W / 150 km / 94 miles / map
  • Rimae Parry – Crater Parry / 6.1°S 16.8°W / 82 km / 51 miles / map
  • Rimae Petavius – Crater Petavius / 25.9°S 58.9°E / 80 km / 50 miles / map
  • Rimae Pettit – Crater Pettit / 23.0°S 92.0°W / 450 km / 281 miles / map
  • Rimae Pitatus – Crater Pitatus / 28.5°S 13.8°W / 94 km / 59 miles / map
  • Rimae Plato – Crater Plato / 52.9°N 3.2°W / 87 km / 54 miles / map
  • Rimae Plinius – Crater Plinius / 17.9°N 23.6°E / 124 km / 78 miles / map
  • Rimae Posidonius – Crater Posidonius / 32.0°N 28.7°E / 70 km / 44 miles / map
  • Rimae Prinz – Crater Prinz / 27.0°N 43.0°W / 80 km / 50 miles / map
  • Rimae Ramsden – Crater Ramsden / 33.9°S 31.4°W / 108 km / 68 miles / map
  • Rimae Repsold – Crater Repsold / 50.6°N 81.7°W / 166 km / 104 miles / map
  • Rimae Riccioli – Crater Riccioli / 2.0°N 74.0°W / 400 km / 250 miles / map
  • Rimae Ritter – Crater Ritter / 3.0°N 18.0°W / 100 km / 63 miles / map
  • Rimae Romer – Crater Romer / 27.0°N 35.0°W / 110 km / 69 miles / map
  • Rimae Secchi – Crater Secchi / 1.0°N 4.0°W / 35 km / 22 miles / map
  • Rimae Sirsalis – Crater Sirsalis1 / 5.7°S 61.7°W / 426 km / 266 miles / map
  • Rimae Sosigenes – Crater Sosigenes / 8.6°N 18.7°E / 190 km / 119 miles / map
  • Rimae Sulpicius Gallus – Crater Sulpicius Gallus / 21.0°N 10.0°E / 90 km / 56 miles / map
  • Rimae Taruntius – Crater Taruntius / 5.5°N 46.5°E / 25 km / 16 miles / map
  • Rimae Theaetetus – Crater Theaetetus / 33.0°N 6.0°E / 50 km / 31 miles / map
  • Rimae Triesnecker – Crater Triesnecker / 4.3°N 4.6°E / 215 km / 134 miles / map
  • Rimae Vasco da Gama – Crater Vasco da Gama / 10.0°N 82.0°E / 60 km / 38 miles / map
  • Rimae Zupus – Crater Zupus / 15.0°S 53.0°W 120 km / 75 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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