Lists of features:- Catena

Catena is a chain of craters on the Moon


Name
Name Origin / Latitude Longitude / Dimension km / miles / map (from USGS)

  • Catena Abulfeda Crater Abulfeda / 6.9°S 17.2°E / 219 km / 137 miles / map
  • Catena Artamonov Crater Abulfeda / 26.0°N 105.9°E / 134 km / 84 miles / map
  • Catena Brigitte – French feminine name / 18.5°N 27.5°E / 5 km / 3 miles / map
  • Catena Davy – Crater Davy / 11.0°S 7.0°W / 50 km / 31 miles / map
  • Catena Dziewulski – Crater Dziewulski / 19.0°N 100.0°E / 80 km / 50 miles / map
  • Catena Gregory – Crater Gregory / 0.6°S 129.9°E / 152 km / 95 miles / map
  • Catena Humboldt – Crater Humboldt / 21.5°S 84.6°E / 165 km / 103 miles / map
  • Catena Krafft – Crater Krafft / 15.0°N 72.0°W / 60 km / 38 miles / map
  • Catena Kurchatov – Crater Kurchatov / 37.2°N 136.3°E / 26 km / 141 miles / map
  • Catena Leuschner – Crater Leuschner / 4.7°N 110.1°W / 364 km / 228 miles / map
  • Catena Littrow – Crater Littrow / 22.2°N 29.5°E / 10 km / 6 miles / map
  • Catena Lucretius – Crater Lucretius / 3.4°S 126.1°W / 271 km / 169 miles / map
  • Catena Mendeleev – Crater Mendeleev / 6.3°N 139.4°E / 188 km / 118 miles / map
  • Catena Michelson – Crater Michelson / 1.4°N 113.4°W / 456 km / 285 miles / map
  • Catena Pierre – French masculine name / 19.8°N 31.8°W / 9 km / 6 miles / map
  • Catena Sumner – Crater Sumner / 37.3°N 112.3°E / 247 km / 154 miles / map
  • Catena Sylvester – Crater Sylvester / 81.4°N 86.2°E / 173 km / 108 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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