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orbital mosaic
Moon
An airless impact archive where light and shadow make relief read like text.
World profile
Lunar craters define the Moon's visual grammar: ray systems, terraces, central peaks, and polar cold traps.
near and far sidesorbital imagerymorphology with little terrestrial-style erosion2 seed / 1,613 target
Color passport
lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadow
This palette guides images, cards, and reconstructions so the worlds never feel like one template.
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Featured craters
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This page shows 6 exemplary profiles out of 1613. The full catalog stays separate for search and filtering.
Visualization previewPalette: lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadowTycho
A young bright lunar crater with a prominent ray system, visible even in a small telescope.
- Diameter
- 85 km
- Coordinates
- 43.300° S, 11.200° W
- Age
- about 108 million years
- Source baseline
- gazetteer
- Confidence
- high
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open recordVisualization previewPalette: lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadowShackleton
A polar crater near the lunar south pole, important because of permanently shadowed regions.
- Diameter
- 21 km
- Coordinates
- 89.900° S, 0.000° E / prime meridian
- Age
- age under study
- Source baseline
- gazetteer
- Confidence
- needs enrichment
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open record
Visualization previewPalette: lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadow8 Homeward
8 Homeward is an officially named crater on Moon. This profile was imported from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as a minimal Crater.world catalog record.
- Diameter
- 12.524255 km
- Coordinates
- 12.025° S, 97.093° E
- Age
- not specified in the Gazetteer
- Source baseline
- gazetteer
- Confidence
- needs enrichment
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open recordVisualization previewPalette: lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadowAbbe
Abbe is an officially named crater on Moon. This profile was imported from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as a minimal Crater.world catalog record.
- Diameter
- 63.975975 km
- Coordinates
- 57.576° S, 174.775° E
- Age
- not specified in the Gazetteer
- Source baseline
- gazetteer
- Confidence
- needs enrichment
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open recordVisualization previewPalette: lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadowAbbot
Abbot is an officially named crater on Moon. This profile was imported from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as a minimal Crater.world catalog record.
- Diameter
- 10.404298 km
- Coordinates
- 5.556° N, 54.743° E
- Age
- not specified in the Gazetteer
- Source baseline
- gazetteer
- Confidence
- needs enrichment
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open recordVisualization previewPalette: lunar graphite, silver, and cold shadowAbel
Abel is an officially named crater on Moon. This profile was imported from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as a minimal Crater.world catalog record.
- Diameter
- 137.34903 km
- Coordinates
- 34.626° S, 85.776° E
- Age
- not specified in the Gazetteer
- Source baseline
- gazetteer
- Confidence
- needs enrichment
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open recordConnected objects
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Visualization previewPalette: ocean blue, cloud light, and living green landChicxulub
A large buried impact structure beneath the Yucatan Peninsula, tied to one of the most famous boundaries in the history of life.
- Diameter
- 180 km
- Coordinates
- 21.400° N, 89.500° W
- Age
- about 66 million years
- Source baseline
- earth-impact-db
- Confidence
- high
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open record
Visualization previewPalette: ocean blue, cloud light, and living green landVredefort
One of Earth's largest and oldest known impact structures, preserved as a deeply eroded dome.
- Diameter
- 250 km
- Coordinates
- 27.000° S, 27.500° E
- Age
- about 2.02 billion years
- Source baseline
- earth-impact-db
- Confidence
- high
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open record
Visualization previewPalette: Martian rust, dust, and ochreGale
A Martian crater with Mount Sharp at its center, transformed into a laboratory by the Curiosity mission.
- Diameter
- 154 km
- Coordinates
- 5.400° S, 137.800° E
- Age
- more than 3.5 billion years
- Source baseline
- nasa-images
- Confidence
- high
MethodReverse reconstructionBidirectional analysis
Open record