List of geological features on Mercury
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This is a list of geological features on Mercury. Different types of features are named after different things: Mercurian ridges are called dorsa, and are named after astronomers who made detailed studies of the planet; valleys are called valles, and are named after radio telescope facilities; plains are called planitiae, and most are named after mythological names associated with Mercury; and escarpments are called rupes and are named after the ships of famous explorers.
See also list of craters on Mercury and list of albedo features on Mercury.
Feature Latitude Longitude Named after Mountains Caloris Montes 39.4 187.2 Latin for 'heat's mountains' Ridges Antoniadi Dorsum 25.1 30.5 Eugène Antoniadi Schiaparelli Dorsum 23 164.1 Giovanni Schiaparelli Valleys Arecibo Vallis -27.5 28.4 Arecibo Observatory Goldstone Vallis -15.8 31.7 Goldstone Observatory Haystack Vallis 4.7 46.2 Haystack Observatory Simeiz Vallis -13.2 64.3 Simeiz Observatory Plains Borealis Planitia 73.4 79.5 Latin for 'northern plain' Budh Planitia 22 150.9 Hindu word for Mercury. Caloris Planitia 30.5 189.8 Latin for 'heat's plain' Odin Planitia 23.3 171.6 Norse god Odin Sobkou Planitia 39.9 129.9 Messenger god. Suisei Planitia 59.2 150.8 Japanese for Mercury. Tir Planitia 0.8 176.1 Norse for Mercury. Escarpments Adventure Rupes -65.1 65.5 Ship of Captain Cook Astrolabe Rupes -42.6 70.7 Ship of Jules Dumont d'Urville Discovery Rupes -56.3 38.3 Ship of Captain Cook Endeavour Rupes 37.5 31.3 Endeavour, ship of Captain Cook Fram Rupes -56.9 93.3 Fram, ship of Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen Gjöa Rupes -66.7 159.3 Ship of Roald Amundsen Heemskerck Rupes 25.9 125.3 Ship of Abel Tasman Hero Rupes -58.4 171.4 Ship of Nathaniel Palmer Mirni Rupes -37.3 39.9 Ship of Fabian von Bellingshausen Pourquoi-Pas Rupes -58.1 156 Ship of Jean-Baptiste Charcot Resolution Rupes -63.8 51.7 Resolution, ship of Captain Cook Santa María Rupes 5.5 19.7 Ship of Christopher Columbus Victoria Rupes 50.9 31.1 Ship of Ferdinand Magellan Vostok Rupes -37.7 19.5 Ship of Fabian von Bellingshausen Zarya Rupes -42.8 20.5 Zarya, a Russian experimental schooner Zeehaen Rupes 51 157 Ship of Jules Dumont d'Urville References
- Batson R.M., Russell J.F. (1994), Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2129 [link]
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