craters Mars

List of named Martian craters.

It contains some of hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars that have their own names.

Martian craters have names derived from well-known scientists and science fiction authors, or if they are less than 60 km in diameter, they have received the names of cities on Earth. The large impact basins Hellas, Argyre and Isidis Planitia, which do not have the morphology typical of impact craters, are not included in this list.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and the second smallest planet in the solar system. It is named after the Roman god of war Mars and is sometimes referred to as the "red planet" because of its reddish appearance. The red color is due to large amounts of iron oxide (rust) distributed over the surface and in the atmosphere. Mars is one of the four rock planets and has a thin atmosphere consisting mostly of carbon dioxide. The surface is covered with craters of different sizes similar to the moon, but Mars, like Earth, also has many volcanoes, valleys, vast plains and ice plots at the poles. Hide

name	named after	location	type	Depth (m)	planet/moon	latitude (°)	longitude (°)	Mean diameter (m)	Map
Zumba (crater)		Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle	Crater/Canyon	620	Mars	-28.6833324432	-133.1833343506	3,300	Map
Gusev (Martian crater)	Matvey Gusev	Aeolis quadrangle	Crater/Canyon	1,000	Mars	-14.5000000000	175.3999938965	166,000	Map
Holden (Martian crater)	Edward S. Holden	Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle	Crater/Canyon	1,500	Mars	-26.3999996185	-34.0000000000	152,000	Map
Koga (crater)		Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle	Crater/Canyon	1,200	Mars	-29.2999992371	-103.8000030518	19,000	Map
Eagle (Meridiani Planum crater)		Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle	Crater/Canyon	3	Mars	-1.9500000477	354.4666748047	22	Map

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