List of craters on Mars: A-G

There are hundreds of thousands of craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. Here is a list of named Martian craters, with names starting with the letter A – G (see also H – N and O – Z). Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors, or if less than 60 km in diameter, after towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, they aren't named after a specific town on Earth - with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites.[1] Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.

Contents

A

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Approval date Named after
Aban 4.2 1988 Aban, Russia
Achar 5.5 1979 Achar, Uruguay
Ada 1.0 2006 Ada, Oklahoma, USA
Adams 94.9 1973 Walter Sydney Adams
Agassiz 117.7 1973 Louis Agassiz
Airy 41.0 1973 George Biddell Airy
Airy-0 0.5 1973
Ajon 8.4 1988 Ajon, Russia
Aki 8.1 1979 Aki, Kochi, Japan
Aktaj 4.9 1988 Aktaj, Russia
Alamos 6.3 2006-09-14 Alamos, Mexico
Albany 2.0 1979 Albany, NY, USA
Albi 8.5 1976 Albi, France
Alexey Tolstoy 95.0 1982 Aleksei Tolstoi
Alga 19.2 1976 Alga, Kazakhstan
Alitus 50.0 1979 Alytus, Lithuania
Amsterdam 1.3 1979 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Angu 1.8 1988 Angu, Dem. Rep. Congo
Aniak 51.0 1979 Aniak, AK, USA
Annapolis 0.4 1979 Annapolis, MD, USA
Antoniadi 394.0 1973 Eugène M. Antoniadi
Apia 10.5 1991 Apia, Samoa
Apt 10.0 1976 Apt, France
Arago 154.0 1973 François Arago
Arandas 25.1 1976 Arandas, Mexico
Argas 3.7 1988 Argas, Russia
Arica 15.5 1991 Arica, Colombia
Arkhangelsky 125.0 1979 A.D. Arkhangelsky
Arrhenius 129.0 1973 Svante Arrhenius
Arta 4.0 1988 Arta, Russia
Asimov 85.0 2009 Isaac Asimov
Aspen 20.3 1976 Aspen, Colorado, USA
Avarua 52.0 2010 Avarua, Cook Islands
Aveiro 9.5 1985 Aveiro, Portugal
Avire 6.54 2008 Avire, Vanuatu
Ayacucho 2.5 1991 Ayacucho, Bolivia
Ayr 13.0 1991 Ayr, Queensland, Australia
Azul 19.7 1976 Azul, Argentina
Azusa 41.1 1976 Azusa, California, USA

B

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Date approved Named after
Babakin 78.0 1985 G. N. Babakin
Bacht 8.0 1976 Bacht, Uzbekistan
Bacolor 20.8 2006 Bacolor, Philippines
Bada 2.1 1988 Bada, Russia
Bahn 12.3 1976 Bahn, Liberia
Bak 3.2 1988 Bak, Hungary
Bakhuysen 161.0 1973 Hendricus van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Balboa 23.3 1976 Balboa, Panama
Baldet 180.0 1973 Fernand Baldet
Balta 18.2 1976 Balta, Ukraine
Baltisk 52.0 1976 Baltiysk, Russia
Balvicar 20.5 1988 Balvicar, Scotland, UK
Bamba 23.0 1976 Bamba, Dem. Rep. Congo
Bamberg 58.3 1976 Bamberg, Germany
Banff 5.0 1976 Banff, AB, Canada
Banh 15.0 1976 Ban, Burkina Faso
Bar 1.9 1976 Bar, Ukraine
Barabashov 125.6 1973 Nikolai P. Barabashov
Barnard 125.0 1973 Edward Emerson Barnard
Baro 16.7 1991 Baro, Nigeria
Barsukov 71.7 2003 Valeri L. Barsukov
Basin 15.7 1976 Basin, Wyoming, USA
Batoka 15.5 1976 Batoka, Zambia
Batoş 17.2 1976 Batoş, Romania
Baykonyr 4.0 1979 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Bazas 16.7 1991 Bazas, France
Beagle 0.04 (informal) HMS Beagle
Becquerel 171.2 1973 Henri Becquerel
Beer 89.8 1973 Wilhelm Beer
Beloha 33.5 2006 Beloha, Madagascar
Beltra 7.4 1988 Beltra, Ireland
Belz 10.2 1976 Belz, Ukraine
Bend 3.6 1976 Bend, Oregon, USA
Bentham 11.5 1991 Bentham, England, UK
Bentong 10.2 1976 Bentong, Malaysia
Bernard 131.0 1985 P. Bernard
Berseba 37.5 1976 Berseba, Namibia
Beruri 46.6 2006-09-14 Beruri, Brazil
Bhor 6.0 1979 Bhor, India
Bianchini 76.0 1973 Francesco Bianchini
Bigbee 20.5 1976 Bigbee, MS, USA
Bira 2.9 1988 Bira, Russia
Bise 9.8 1976 Bise, Okinawa, Japan
Bison 16.0 1976 Bison, Kansas, USA
Bjerknes 94.0 1973 Vilhelm Bjerknes
Bland 7.1 1988 Bland, Missouri, USA
Bled 7.8 1976 Bled, Slovenia
Blitta 13.6 1976 Blitta, Togo
Blois 12.5 1976 Blois, France
Bluff 6.6 1976 Bluff, New Zealand
Boeddicker 109.0 1973 Otto Boeddicker
Bogia 38.0 2008 Bogia, Papua New Guinea
Bogra 21.3 1976 Bogra, Bangladesh
Bok 7.1 1976 Bok, Papua New Guinea
Bole 8.3 1976 Bole, Ghana
Bombala 38.1 1991 Bombala, NSW, Australia
Bond 110.6 1973 George Phillips Bond
Bonestell 42.4 1997 Chesley Bonestell
Bonneville 0.21 (informal) Lake Bonneville
Boola 17.0 2006 Boola, Guinea
Bopolu 19.3 2006-09-14 Bopolu, Liberia
Bor 4.3 1976 Bor, Russia
Bordeaux 1.8 1979 Bordeaux, France
Boru 10.9 1976 Boru, Russia
Bouguer 107.0 1973 Pierre Bouguer
Boulia 10.5 1991 Boulia, Queensland, Australia
Bozkir 84.0 1976 Bozkir, Turkey
Brashear 79.0 1973 John Brashear
Bremerhaven 2.5 1979 Bremerhaven, Germany
Briault 96.6 1973 P. Briault
Bridgetown 1.3 1979 Bridgetown, Barbados
Bristol 3.0 1979 Bristol, England, UK
Broach 12.0 1976 Broach, India
Bronkhorst 17.9 2006 Bronkhorst, Netherlands
Brush 6.4 1976 Brush, Colorado, USA
Bulhar 18.7 1979 Bulhar, Somalia
Bunge 73.7 1979 Alexander G. von Bunge
Burroughs 125.7 1973 Edgar Rice Burroughs
Burton 123.0 1973 Charles E. Burton
Buta 11.0 1979 Buta, Dem. Rep. Congo
Butte 13.0 1976 Butte, Montana, USA
Byrd 126.8 1976 Richard E. Byrd
Byske 13.5 1976 Byske, Sweden

C

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Date approved Named after
Cádiz 1.5 1979 Cádiz, Spain
Cairns 8.6 1976 Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Calahorra 35.2 1997 Calahorra, Spain
Calamar 7.2 1988 Calamar, Colombia
Calbe 13.3 1976 Calbe, Germany
Camargo 4.7 1988 Camargo, Bolivia
Camiling 22.5 1976 Camiling, the Philippines
Camiri 26.4 1976 Camiri, Bolivia
Campbell 129.0 1973 John W. Campbell and William Wallace Campbell
Campos 8.1 1976 Campos, Brazil
Can 8.4 1976 Çan, Turkey
Canala 12 2011 Canala, New Caledonia
Cañas 42.0 1991 Cañas, Puerto Rico
Canaveral 3.3 1979 Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Canberra 3.0 1979 Canberra, Australia
Cangwu 14.0 1991 Cangwu, China
Canillo 35.0 2009 Canillo, Andorra
Canso 27.4 1988 Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cantoura 51.4 1988 Cantoura, Venezuela
Cankuzo 51.0 2010 Cankuzo, Burundi
Capen 70.0 2008 Charles Capen
Cartago 37.5 1976 Cartago, Costa Rica
Cassini 412.0 1973 Giovanni Cassini
Castril 2.2 2006 Castril, Spain
Cave 8.4 1976 Cave, New Zealand
Caxias 25.4 1991 Caxias, Brazil
Cefalù 5.3 2006-09-14 Cefalù, Italy
Cerulli 130.0 1973 Vincenzo Cerulli
Chafe 4.8 1988 Chafe, Nigeria
Chaman 48.1 2006-12-14 Chaman, Pakistan
Chamberlin 120.4 1973 Thomas Chamberlin
Changsvông 35.0 1976 Changsvông, Korea
Chapais 37.4 1976 Chapais, Quebec, Canada
Charleston 1.5 1979 Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Charlier 113.1 1973 Carl Charlier
Charlieu 19.1 1991 Charlieu, France
Chatturat 8.2 1991 Chatturat, Thailand
Chauk 10.0 1976 Chauk, Burma
Cheb 8.3 1976 Cheb, Czech Republic
Chefu 11.5 1991 Chefu, Mozambique
Chekalin 89.3 1976 Chekalin, Turkmenistan
Chia 96.0 1985 Chía, Spain
Chimbote 67.2 1976 Chimbote, Peru
Chincoteague 37.0 1979 Chincoteague, Virginia, USA
Chinju 66.6 1976 Chinju, South Korea
Chinook 20.0 1976 Chinook Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Chive 9.0 1976 Chive, Bolivia
Choctaw 23.8 1976 Choctaw Lake, Ohio, USA
Chom 5.5 1976 Chom, Tibet
Chupadero 8.0 2006-09-14 Chupadero, New Mexico, USA
Chur 4.3 1976 Chur, Russia
Circle 11.5 1976 Circle, Montana, USA
Clark 98.0 1973 Alvan Clark
Clogh 11.1 1976 Clogh, Ireland
Clova 7.7 1988 Clova, QC, Canada
Cluny 14.8 1976 Cluny, France
Cobalt 11.5 1976 Cobalt, Connecticut, USA
Coblentz 112.0 1973 William Coblentz
Cobres 94.0 1985 San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina
Coimbra 34.7 2008 Coimbra, Portugal
Cólon 2.0 1979 Colón, Panama
Columbus 119.0 1976 Christopher Columbus
Comas Sola 127.0 1973 Josep Comas Solá
Conches 21.2 1976 Conches, France
Concord 20.7 1976 Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Cooma 17.3 1991 Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Copernicus 294.0 1973 Nicolaus Copernicus
Corby 6.7 1979 Corby, England, UK
Corinto 13.5 2008 Corinto, El Salvador
Cost 11.6 1976 Cost, Texas, USA
Cray 7.2 1976 Cray, England, UK
Creel 9.3 1976 Creel, Mexico
Crewe 3.6 1976 Crewe, England, UK
Crivitz 6.1 2003 Crivitz, Germany
Crommelin 113.9 1973 Andrew Crommelin
Cross 67.5 2009 Charles Arthur Cross
Crotone 6.4 2006 Crotone, Italy
Cruls 88.0 1973 Luiz Cruls
Cruz 5.4 1976 Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela
Cue 10.7 1991 Cue, Western Australia
Culter 4.6 2006 Culter, Scotland near Aberdeen, Scotland, also called Peterculter
Curie 114.1 1973 Pierre Curie
Cypress 14.2 1976 Cypress, Illinois, USA

D

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Date approved Named after
Da Vinci 100.2 1973 Leonardo da Vinci
Daan 12.5 1991 Daan, China
Daet 10.5 1976 Daet, Philippines
Daly 90.5 1973 Reginald Aldworth Daly
Dana 91.7 1973 James Dwight Dana
Danielson 66.7 2009 G. Edward Danielson
Dank 8.7 1976 Dank, Oman
Darvel 22.0 1988 Darvel, Scotland, UK
Darwin 178.0 1973 Charles Darwin and George Howard Darwin
Davies 49.2 2006 Merton Davies
Dawes 191.0 1973 William Rutter Dawes
de Vaucouleurs 293.0 2000 Gerard de Vaucouleurs
Deba 10.3 1976 Deba, Nigeria
Dein 26.0 1976 Dein, Papua New Guinea
Dejnev 156.0 1985 Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev
Delta 8.1 1976 Delta, Louisiana, USA
Denning 165.0 1973 William Frederick Denning
Dersu 6.6 1988 Dersu, Russia
Dese 13.7 1976 Dese, Ethiopia
Dessau 27.0 2006 Dessau, Germany
Deseado [2] 10.2 1976 Puerto Deseado, Argentina
Dia-Cau 29.7 1976 Dia-Cau, Vietnam
Dilly 1.3 2006 Dilly, Mali
Dingo 16.0 1976 Dingo, Queensland, Australia
Dinorwic 55.8 1991 Dinorwic, ON, Canada
Dison 21.0 1976 Dison, Belgium
Dixie 28.7 1988 Dixie, Georgia USA
Doba 26.3 2009 Doba, Chad
Dogana 41.2 2011 Dogana, San Marino
Dokka 52.5 2006 Dokka, Norway
Dokuchaev 78.0 1982 Vasily V. Dokuchaev
Doon 3.7 1988 Doon, ON, Canada
Douglass 94.0 1973 Andrew E. Douglass
Dowa 42.0 2010 Dowa, Malawi
Downe 28.0 2003 Downe, England, UK
Dromore 14.8 1976 Dromore, Ireland
Du Martheray 102.0 1973 Maurice du Martheray
Du Toit 83.0 1973 Alexander Du Toit
Dubki 9.0 1979 Dubki, Russia
Dulovo 18.8 2006-09-14 Dulovo, Bulgaria
Dunhuang 12.1 1991 Dunhuang, China
Dush 2.5 1988 Dush, Egypt
Dzeng 10.6 1991 Dzeng, Cameroon

E

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Approval date Named after
Eads 2.3 1976 Eads, Colorado, USA
Eagle 13.0 1976 Eagle, Idaho
0.03 (informal) Spacecraft Eagle, Apollo 11
Eberswalde 65.3 2006 Eberswalde, Germany
Echt 1.1 1976 Echt, Scotland, UK
Edam 20.2 1976 Edam, Netherlands
Eddie 89.0 1973 Lindsay Eddie
Eger 13.0 1976 Eger, Hungary
Ehden 57.7 2009 Ehden, Lebanon
Eil 5.7 1976 Eil, Somalia
Eilat 31.7 2006-12-14 Eilat, Israel
Ejriksson 49.0 1967 Leif Erikson
Elath 13.2 1976 Eilat, Israel
Elim 43.0 2006 Elim, Western Cape
Ellsley 11.1 1991 Ellsley, England, UK
Elorza 47.0 2006 Elorza, Venezuela
Ely 10.3 1976 Ely, Nevada, USA
Emma Dean 0.10 (informal) John Powell's Boat, USA
Endeavour 22.5 2008 Endeavour, Saskatchewan
Endurance 0.13 (informal) HM Bark Endurance
Escalante 79.3 1973 F. Escalante
Escorial 22.7 1991 Escorial, Spain
Esk 3.9 1976 Esk, Queensland, Australia
Espino 12.0 1991 Espino, Venezuela
Eudoxus 98.0 1973 Eudoxus of Cnidus
Evpatoriya 1.0 1979 Eupatoria, Crimea, Ukraine

F

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Approval date Named after
Faith 5.8 1976 Faith, South Dakota, USA
Falun 10.2 1976 Falun, Sweden
Faqu 12.4 1991 Faqu, Jordan
Fastov 10.3 1976 Fastov, Ukraine
Fenagh 6.3 1991 Fenagh, Ireland
Fesenkov 87.0 1973 Vasilii Fesenkov
Firsoff 90 2010 Axel Firsoff
Fitzroy 38.0 2010 Fitzroy, Falkland Islands
Flammarion 173.0 1973 Camille Flammarion
Flat 2.5 1976 Flat, Alabama, USA
Flaugergues 245.0 1973 Honoré Flaugergues
Floq 2.2 1988 Floq, Albania
Flora 19.0 1976 Flora, Mississippi, USA
Focas 76.5 1973 Jean Focas
Fontana 80.0 1973 Francesco Fontana
Foros 24.5 1979 Foros, Ukraine
Fournier 118.0 1973 Georges Fournier
Fram 0.01 (informal) Fram
Freedom 12.9 1976 Freedom, Oklahoma, USA
Funchal 1.7 1979 Funchal, Madeira Islands

G

Crater Coordinates Diameter (km) Approval date Named after
Gaan 2.8 1976 Gaan, Somalia
Gagra 13.3 1976 Gagra, Georgia
Gah 2.7 1976 Gah, Maluku, Indonesia
Galap 5.9 2009 Galap, Palau
Galdakao 35.0 2003 Galdakao, Basque Country, Spain
Gale 155.3 1991 Walter Gale
Gali 26.4 1976 Gali, Georgia
Galilaei 137.3 1973 Galileo Galilei
Galle 230.0 1973 Johann Galle
Galu 12.5 1976 Galu, Dem. Rep. Congo
Gamboa 33.0 2006 Gamboa, Panama
Gander 38.0 1991 Gander, NL, Canada
Gandu 8.8 1976 Gandu, Brazil
Gandzani 54.8 1991 Gandzani, Georgia
Gardo 17.2 1976 Gardo, Somalia
Gari 9.4 1979 Gari, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Garm 5.0 1976 Garm, Tajikistan
Gasa 6.5 2009 Gasa, Bhutan
Gastre 7.0 1976 Gastre, Argentina
Gatico 18.0 1976 Gatico, Chile
Gilbert 126.4 1973 Grove Gilbert
Gill 83.0 1973 David Gill
Glazov 24.7 1976 Glazov, Russia
Gledhill 82.5 1973 Joseph Gledhill
Glendore 8.0 1988 Glendore, Ireland
Glide 10.5 1976 Glide, Oregon, USA
Globe 51.7 1976 Globe, Arizona, USA
Goba 10.8 1976 Goba, Ethiopia
Goff 7.9 1976 Goff, Somalia
Gol 9.6 1976 Gol, Norway
Gold 9.0 1976 Gold, Pennsylvania, USA
Golden 20.2 1976 Golden, Illinois, USA
Goldstone 1.0 1979 Goldstone Observatory, CA, USA
Gori 6.2 1979 Gori, Georgia
Graff 158.0 1973 Kasimir Graff
Gratteri 7.3 2006 Gratteri, Italy on the island of Sicily, Italy
Green 184.0 1973 Nathaniel E. Green
Greg 68.0 2010 Percy Greg
Grindavik 12.0 2006 Grindavik, Iceland
Grójec 38.5 1976 Grójec, Poland
Groves 11.2 1976 Groves, Texas, USA
Guaymas 20.0 1976 Guaymas, Mexico
Guir 18.9 1976 Guir, Mali
Gulch 8.2 1976 Gulch, Ethiopia
Gunnison 40.8 2003 Gunnison, Colorado, USA
Gusev 166.0 1976 Matvei Gusev
Gwash 4.7 1976 Gwash, Pakistan

See also

References

  1. ^ Categories for Naming Features on Planets and Satellites, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, NASA
  2. ^ http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1500

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