Humboldt is a large lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this formation has an extremely oblong...

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large lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is attached to the northern rim of the walled plain Humboldt. To the northeast...

This is a list of named lunar craters. The large majority of these features are impact craters. The crater nomenclature is governed by the International...

Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical...

Phillips is a lunar impact crater that is located in the vicinity of the Moon's east-southeastern limb, named after British geologist John Phillips. The...

lectures reasonably faithfully. In the book Humboldt provided observations supporting the elevation crater theory of his friend Leopold von Buch. The theory...

impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the near side of the Moon, east of the large crater Humboldt and west of Curie. The crater's name...

objects, but of a more familiar object, the Moon. The objects listed include craters, seas, mountains and other features, and are arranged in ascending order...

around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s. On 28 November, 1979...

the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...

lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is attached to the southeast rim of the large crater Humboldt, and Abel lies...

The crater chain Catena Humboldt passes to the south of Gibbs, following a line to the northeast. Due to its proximity to the limb, this crater appears...

Humboldtianum /hʌmboʊltiˈeɪnəm/ (Latin humboldtiānum, the "Sea of Alexander von Humboldt") is a lunar mare located just to the east of Mare Frigoris, in the center...

given by Alexander von Humboldt in his book Kosmos. Humbold and Buch considered basaltic volcanism to be linked to elevation craters and trachyte to be the...

observed within the basin include wrinkle ridges, submerged "ghost" craters, domes, crater chains, and rilles. The overall shape of the mare is circular, likely...

1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scientific...

A volcanic field or crater row is an area of Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity. The type and number of volcanoes required to be...

however, this would be one of the largest visible craters, with a dimension roughly equal to the crater Humboldt, lying several hundred kilometers to the west-southwest...

Peak, the highest peak in Arizona at 12,633 feet. Barringer Crater (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) Mormon Lake Oak Creek Canyon Verde Valley Mingus Mountain, (Black...

worked in Heidelberg, getting his PhD there in 1906 and he then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for...

volcanic field, Owyhee-Humboldt volcanic field, Lake Owyhee volcanic field (or Jordan Valley volcanic field, Lake Owyhee), Jordan Craters, Santa Rosa – Calico...

following a catastrophic landslide. Teide's base is situated in Las Cañadas crater (the remains of an older, eroded, extinct volcano) at a height of around...

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively...

relation to First Crater and Crater Hill, but the name has fallen into disuse. Twin Crater, alluding to the nested cones in the crater, was applied as early...

surface of the Moon has many features, including mountains and valleys, craters, and maria—wide flat areas that look like seas from a distance but are...

in a 13 km wide impact crater. The age of the crater is estimated to be 99 ± 4 million years (Cretaceous). The smaller Gow crater, of Triassic age, is approximately...

thicker than the earlier basalts and basaltic andesite lavas. El Jorullo's crater is about 1,300 by 1,640 feet (400 by 500 m) wide and 490 feet (150 m) deep...

naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who extensively catalogued the mountains and volcanoes of South America. Both Church and Humboldt over-dramatized the slopes...

space found its application for the first time in 1845 by Alexander von Humboldt. The term was eventually popularized through the writings of H. G. Wells...