This map refers to the numbers in the descriptions below.
Lunar 100 - list
L | Feature Name | Map # / Significance | Lat. (°) | Long. (°) | Diam. (km) |
L1 | Moon | -/ Large satellite (dd/mm/yy) | — | — | 3.476 |
L2 | Earthshine | -/ Twice reflected sunlight (dd/mm/yy) |
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L3 | Mare/highland dichotomy | -/ Two materials with distinct compositions (dd/mm/yy) |
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L4 | Apennines | 22/ Imbrium basin rim | 18.9N | 3.7W | 70 |
L5 | Copernicus | 31/ Archetypal large complex crater | 9.7N | 20.1W | 93 |
L6 | Tycho | 64/ Large rayed crater with impact melts | 43.4S | 11.1W | 85 |
L7 | Altai Scarp | 57/ Nectaris basin rim | 24.3S | 22.6E | 425 |
L8 | Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina | 46, 57/ Crater sequence illustrating stages of degradation | 13.2S | 24.0E | — |
L9 | Clavius | 72/ Lacks basin features in spite of its size | 58.8S | 14.1W | 225 |
L10 | Mare Crisium | 26, 27, 37, 38/ Mare contained in large circular basin | 18.0N | 59.0E | 540 |
L11 | Aristarchus | 18/ Very bright crater with dark bands on its walls | 23.7N | 47.4W | 40 |
L12 | Proclus | 26/ Oblique-impact rays | 16.1N | 46.8E | 28 |
L13 | Gassendi | 52/ Floor-fractured crater | 17.6S | 40.1W | 101 |
L14 | Sinus Iridum | 10/ Very large crater with missing rim | 45.0N | 32.0W | 260 |
L15 | Straight Wall | 54/ Best example of a lunar fault | 21.8S | 7.8W | 110 |
L16 | Petavius | 59/ Crater with domed and fractured floor | 25.1S | 60.4E | 177 |
L17 | Schröter's Valley | 18/ Giant sinuous rille | 26.2N | 50.8W | 168 |
L18 | Mare Serenitatis dark edges | 24/ Distinct mare areas with different compositions | 17.8N | 23.0E | N/A |
L19 | Alpine Valley | 4/ Lunar graben | 49.0N | 3.0E | 165 |
L20 | Posidonius | 14/ Floor-fractured crater | 31.8N | 29.9E | 95 |
L21 | Fracastorius | 58/ Crater with subsided and fractured floor | 21.5S | 33.2E | 124 |
L22 | Aristarchus Plateau | 18/ Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics | 26.0N | 51.0W | 150 |
L23 | Pico | 11/ Isolated Imbrium basin-ring fragment | 45.7N | 8.9W | 25 |
L24 | Hyginus Rille | 34/ Rille containing rimless collapse pits | 7.4N | 7.8E | 220 |
L25 | Messier & Messier A | 48/ Oblique ricochet-impact pair | 1.9S | 47.6E | 11 |
L26 | Mare Frigoris | 2-6/ Arcuate mare of uncertain origin | 56.0N | 1.4E | 1600 |
L27 | Archimedes | 12, 22/ Large crater lacking central peak | 29.7N | 4.0W | 83 |
L28 | Hipparchus | 44, 45/ First drawing of a single crater | 5.5S | 4.8E | 150 |
L29 | Ariadaeus Rille | 34/ Long, linear graben | 6.4N | 14.0E | 250 |
L30 | Schiller | 71/ Possible oblique impact | 51.9S | 39.0W | 180 |
L31 | Taruntius | 37/ Young floor-fractured crater | 5.6N | 46.5E | 56 |
L32 | Arago Alpha & Beta | 35/ Volcanic domes | 6.2N | 21.4E | 26 |
L33 | Serpentine Ridge | 24/ Basin inner-ring segment | 27.3N | 25.3E | 155 |
L34 | Lacus Mortis | 14/ Strange crater with rille and ridge | 45.0N | 27.2E | 152 |
L35 | Triesnecker Rilles | 33/ Rille family | 4.3N | 4.6E | 215 |
L36 | Grimaldi basin | 39/ A small two-ring basin | 5.5S | 68.3W | 440 |
L37 | Bailly | 71/ Barely discernible basin | 66.5S | 69.1W | 303 |
L38 | Sabine and Ritter | 35/ Possible twin impacts | 1.7N | 19.7E | 30 |
L39 | Schickard | 62/ Crater floor with Orientale basin ejecta stripe | 44.3S | 55.3W | 227 |
L40 | Janssen Rille | 67, 68/ Rare example of a highland rille | 45.4S | 39.3E | 190 |
L41 | Bessel ray | 24/ Ray of uncertain origin near Bessel | 21.8N | 17.9E | N/A |
L42 | Marius Hills | 28, 29/ Complex of volcanic domes & hills | 12.5N | 54.0W | 125 |
L43 | Wargentin | 70/ A crater filled to the rim with lava or ejecta | 49.6S | 60.2W | 84 |
L44 | Mersenius | 51/ Domed floor cut by secondary craters | 21.5S | 49.2W | 84 |
L45 | Maurolycus | 66/ Region of saturation cratering | 42.0S | 14.0E | 114 |
L46 | Regiomontanus central peak | 55/ Possible volcanic peak | 28.0S | 0.6W | 124 |
L47 | Alphonsus dark spots | 44/ Dark-halo eruptions on crater floor | 13.7S | 3.2W | 119 |
L48 | Cauchy region | 36/ Fault, rilles and domes | 10.5N | 38.0E | 130 |
L49 | Gruithuisen Delta and Gamma | 9/ Volcanic domes formed with viscous lavas | 36.3N | 40.0W | 20 |
L50 | Cayley Plains | 34/ Light, smooth plains of uncertain origin | 4.0N | 15.1E | 14 |
L51 | Davy crater chain | 43/ Result of comet-fragment impacts | 11.1S | 6.6W | 50 |
L52 | Crüger | 50/ Possible volcanic caldera | 16.7S | 66.8W | 45 |
L53 | Lamont | 35/ Possible buried basin | 4.4N | 23.7E | 106 |
L54 | Hippalus Rilles | 52,53/ Rilles concentric to Humorum basin | 24.5S | 29.0W | 240 |
L55 | Baco | 74/ Unusually smooth crater floor and surrounding plains | 51.0S | 19.1E | 69 |
L56 | Australe basin | 76/ A partially flooded ancient basin | 49.8S | 84.5E | 880 |
L57 | Reiner Gamma | 28/ Conspicuous swirl and magnetic anomaly | 7.7N | 59.2W | 70 |
L58 | Rheita Valley | 68/ Basin secondary-crater chain | 42.5S | 51.5E | 445 |
L59 | Schiller-Zucchius basin | 70,71/ Badly degraded overlooked basin | 56.0S | 45.0W | 335 |
L60 | Kies Pi | 53/ Volcanic dome | 26.9S | 24.2W | 45 |
L61 | Mösting A | 43/ Simple crater close to center of lunar near side | 3.2S | 5.2W | 13 |
L62 | Rümker | 8/ Large volcanic dome | 40.8N | 58.1W | 70 |
L63 | Imbrium sculpture | 34/ Basin ejecta near and overlying Boscovich and Julius Caesar | 11.0N | 12.0E | — |
L64 | Descartes | 45/ Apollo 16 landing site; putative region of highland volcanism | 11.7S | 15.7E | 48 |
L65 | Hortensius domes | 30/ Dome field north of Hortensius | 7.6N | 27.9W | 10 |
L66 | Hadley Rille | 22/ Lava channel near Apollo 15 landing site | 25.0N | 3.0E | — |
L67 | Fra Mauro formation | 42/ Apollo 14 landing site on Imbrium ejecta | 3.6S | 17.5W | — |
L68 | Flamsteed P | 40/ Proposed young volcanic crater and Surveyor 1 landing site | 3.0S | 44.0W | 112 |
L69 | Copernicus secondary craters | 20/ Rays and craterlets near Pytheas | 19.6N | 19.1W | 4 |
L70 | Humboldtianum basin | 7/ Multi-ring impact basin | 57.0N | 80.0E | 650 |
L71 | Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle | 23/ Ash eruptions northwest of crater | 19.6N | 11.6E | 12 |
L72 | Atlas dark-halo craters | 15/ Explosive volcanic pits on the floor of Atlas | 46.7N | 44.4E | 87 |
L73 | Smythii basin | 38,49/ Difficult-to-observe basin scarp and mare | 2.0S | 87.0E | 740 |
L74 | Copernicus H | 31/ Dark-halo impact crater | 6.9N | 18.3W | 5 |
L75 | Ptolemaeus B | 44/ Saucer-like depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus | 8.0S | 0.8W | 16 |
L76 | W. Bond | 4/ Large crater degraded by Imbrium ejecta | 65.3N | 3.7E | 158 |
L77 | Sirsalis Rille | 39,50/ Procellarum basin radial rilles | 15.7S | 61.7W | 425 |
L78 | Lambert R | 20/ A buried "ghost" crater | 23.8N | 20.6W | 54 |
L79 | Sinus Aestuum | 33/ Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit | 12.0N | 3.5W | 90 |
L80 | Orientale basin | 50/ Youngest large impact basin | 19.0S | 95.0W | 930 |
L81 | Hesiodus A | 54/ Concentric crater | 30.1S | 17.0W | 15 |
L82 | Linné | 23/ Small crater once thought to have disappeared | 27.7N | 11.8E | 2.4 |
L83 | Plato craterlets | 3,4/ Crater pits at limits of detection | 51.6N | 9.4W | 101 |
L84 | Pitatus | 54/ Crater with concentric rilles | 29.8S | 13.5W | 97 |
L85 | Langrenus rays | 49/ Aged ray system | 8.9S | 60.9E | 132 |
L86 | Prinz Rilles | 19/ Rille system near the crater Prinz | 27.0N | 43.0W | 46 |
L87 | Humboldt | 60/ Crater with central peaks and dark spots | 27.0S | 80.9E | 207 |
L88 | Peary | 4,11/ Difficult-to-observe polar crater | 88.6N | 33.0E | 74 |
L89 | Valentine Dome | 13/ Volcanic dome | 30.5N | 10.1E | 30 |
L90 | Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins | 35/ Small craters near the Apollo 11 landing site | 1.3N | 23.7E | 3 |
L91 | De Gasparis Rilles | 51/ Area with many rilles | 25.9S | 50.7W | 30 |
L92 | Gyldén Valley | 44/ Part of the Imbrium radial sculpture | 5.1S | 0.7E | 47 |
L93 | Dionysius rays | 35/ Unusual and rare dark rays | 2.8N | 17.3E | 18 |
L94 | Drygalski | 72, VI/ Large south-pole region crater | 79.3S | 84.9W | 162 |
L95 | Procellarum basin | - The Moon's biggest basin? | 23.0N | 15.0W | 3200 |
L96 | Leibnitz Mountains | 73, V/ Rim of South Pole-Aitken basin | 85.0S | 30.0E | — |
L97 | Inghirami Valley | 61/ Orientale basin ejecta | 44.0S | 73.0W | 140 |
L98 | Imbrium lava flows | 10/ Mare lava-flow boundaries | 32.8N | 22.0W | — |
L99 | Ina | 22/ D-shaped young volcanic caldera | 18.6N | 5.3E | 3 |
L100 | Mare Marginis swirls | 27, III/ Possible magnetic field deposits | 18.5N | 88.0E | — |