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Natural Satellite Surface Features

Natural satellites throughout the solar system have many different surface features that include craters, mountains, valleys and maria, among many others. Explore surface features of the Moon and other natural satellites in the solar system, including craters, as well as other named features that often go overlooked. The dark maria, meaning seas, of our Moon are actually large relatively flat basalt plains that are volcanic in origin and are found mainly on the near side. Jupiter's moon Io is covered in volcanoes and flow features.

Search for features by type or by name, which is often a combination of a famous person or character and a Latin description of its feature type.

Compute the locations and get properties of craters:

Herschel crater on Mimas

Valhalla on Callisto

Investigate furrows:

Damascus Sulcus on Enceladus

Uruk Sulcus

Find bright spots on moons:

Memphis Facula on Ganymede

Tortola Facula

Explore albedo features:

Xanadu on Titan

Ching-tu albedo feature

Learn about mountains and mountain ranges on moons:

Tortelosa Montes on Iapetus

Mons Hadley

Query for eruptive centers on moons:

Zamama eruptive center

eruptive centers on Io

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Properties of Natural Satellite Surface Features

Plot the location of a natural satellite surface feature, determine its size and find out what body the feature is found on.

Locate a feature on a map:

location of Kachina Chasmata

Compare the sizes of features:

Tycho crater, Copernicus crater diameter

Calculate the distance between features:

distance from Arpi Fossae to Fidena Fossae

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