The Queen Elizabeth Ranges is a group of mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies on the southeastern side of Jasper National Park Canada. The northern end of the ranges begins […]
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Wrottesley (crater)
Wrottesley is a lunar impact crater that is attached to the west-northwestern rim of the larger crater Petavius and lies along the southeast edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It lies in […]
Swift (lunar crater)
Swift is a tiny lunar impact crater that is located in the northwestern part of the Mare Crisium in the northeast part of the Moon’s near side. Within two crater […]
Peirce (crater)
Peirce is a small lunar crater named in honor of the mathematician Benjamin Peirce which lies in the western part of Mare Crisium. That dark circular lunar mare is located […]
Maupertuis (crater)
Maupertuis is the remnant of a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon’s near side. It lies in the stretch of rugged terrain north […]
Lyot (lunar crater)
Lyot is a large lunar crater that is located along the southeastern limb of the Moon. It lies within the irregular and patchy lunar mare named Mare Australe and to […]
J. Herschel (crater)
J. Herschel is large lunar crater of the variety termed a walled plain. It is located in the northern part of the Moon’s surface and so appears foreshortened when viewed […]
Gauss (crater)
Gauss is a large lunar crater named after Carl Friedrich Gauss that is located near the northeastern limb of the Moon’s near side. It belongs to a category of lunar […]
Buffon (crater)
Buffon is a lunar crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies a crater diameter south of the large walled plain […]
Firmicus (crater)
Firmicus is a lunar crater that lies in the eastern part of the Moon’s near side so that from Earth it appears oval in shape due to foreshortening. It is […]