List of craters on Mars: A-G

This article should list only official names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Opportunity rover images Burns Cliff inside Endurance impact crater in 2004.

This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z).

Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Earth, but rather its name comes at random from a pool of terrestrial place names, with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.

A

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval date	Named after
Aban		4.2	1988	Russia place name
Achar		5.5	1979	Uruguay place name
Ada		1.0	2006	USA (Oklahoma) place name
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	Russia place name
Aki		8.1	1979	Japan place name
Aktaj		4.9	1988	Russia place name
Alamos		6.3	2006-09-14	Mexico place name
Albany		2.0	1979	Albany, NY, USA
Albi		8.5	1976	France place name
Alexey Tolstoy		95.0	1982	Aleksei Tolstoi
Alga		19.2	1976	Kazakhstan place name
Alitus		50.0	1979	Lithuania place name
Amsterdam		1.3	1979	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Angu		1.8	1988	Dem. Rep. Congo place name
Aniak		51.0	1979	USA (Alaska) place name
Annapolis		0.4	1979	Annapolis, MD, USA
Antoniadi		394.0	1973	E. M. Antoniadi
Apia		10.5	1991	Samoa place name
Apt		10.0	1976	France place name
Arago		154.0	1973	François Arago
Arandas		25.1	1976	Mexico place name
Argas		3.7	1988	Russia place name
Arica		15.5	1991	Colombia place name
Arima		53.6	2012-02-22	Town in Trinidad and Tobago
Arkhangelsky		125.0	1979	Andrey Arkhangelsky
Arrhenius		129.0	1973	Svante Arrhenius
Arta		4.0	1988	Russia place name
Artik		5.4	2013-08-30	Town in Armenia
Asau		25.0	2013-06-03	Town in Tuvalu
Asimov		85.0	2009	Isaac Asimov
Aspen		20.3	1976	USA (Colorado) place name
Auce		37.0	2014	Latvia place name
Auki		40	2015	Solomon Islands place name
Avarua		52.0	2010	Cook Islands place name
Aveiro		9.5	1985	Portugal place name
Avire		6.54	2008	Vanuatu place name
Ayacucho		2.5	1991	Bolivia place name
Ayr		13.0	1991	Australia (Queensland) place name
Azul		19.7	1976	Argentina place name
Azusa		41.1	1976	USA (California) place name

B

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Date approved	Named after
Babakin		78.0	1985	Georgy Babakin
Bacht		8.0	1976	Uzbekistan place name
Bacolor		20.8	2006	Philippines place name
Bada		2.1	1988	Russia place name
Badwater		33.1	2015	USA (California) place name
Bahn		12.3	1976	Liberia place name
Bak		3.2	1988	Hungary place name
Bakhuysen		161.0	1973	Hendricus van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Balboa		23.3	1976	Panama place name
Baldet		180.0	1973	Fernand Baldet
Balta		18.2	1976	Ukraine place name
Baltisk		52.0	1976	Russia place name
Balvicar		20.5	1988	Scotland place name
Bamba		23.0	1976	Dem. Rep. Congo place name
Bamberg		58.3	1976	Germany place name
Banff		5.0	1976	Canada (Alberta) place name
Banh		15.0	1976	Burkina Faso place name
Bar		1.9	1976	Ukraine place name
Barabashov		125.6	1973	Nikolai P. Barabashov
Barnard		125.0	1973	Edward Emerson Barnard
Baro		16.7	1991	Nigeria place name
Barsukov		71.7	2003	Valeri Barsukov
Basin		15.7	1976	USA (Wyoming) place name
Batoka		15.5	1976	Zambia place name
Batoş		17.2	1976	Romania place name
Baucau		17.9	2012	Timor-Leste place name
Baykonyr		4.0	1979	Kazakhstan place name
Bazas		16.7	1991	France place name
Beagle		0.04	(informal)	HMS Beagle
Becquerel		171.2	1973	Henri Becquerel
Beer		89.8	1973	Wilhelm Beer
Beloha		33.5	2006	Madagascar place name
Beltra		7.4	1988	Ireland place name
Belz		10.2	1976	Ukraine place name
Bend		3.6	1976	USA (Oregon) place name
Bentham		11.5	1991	England place name
Bentong		10.2	1976	Malaysia place name
Bernard		131.0	1985	P. Bernard
Berseba		37.5	1976	Namibia place name
Beruri		46.6	2006-09-14	Brazil place name
Betio		32.4	2013	Kiribati place name
Bhor		6.0	1979	Bhor, India place name
Bianchini		76.0	1973	Francesco Bianchini
Bigbee		20.5	1976	USA (Mississippi) place name
Bira		2.9	1988	Russia place name
Bise		9.8	1976	Japan place name
Bison		16.0	1976	USA (Kansas) place name
Bjerknes		94.0	1973	Vilhelm Bjerknes
Bland		7.1	1988	USA (Missouri) place name
Bled		7.8	1976	Slovenia place name
Blitta		13.6	1976	Togo place name
Blois		12.5	1976	France place name
Bluff		6.6	1976	New Zealand place name
Blunck		17.2	2013	Jürgen Blunck, German historian
Boeddicker		109.0	1973	Otto Boeddicker
Bogia		38.0	2008	Papua New Guinea place name
Bogra		21.3	1976	Bangladesh place name
Bok		7.1	1976	Papua New Guinea place name
Bole		8.3	1976	Ghana place name
Bombala		38.1	1991	Australia (New S. Wales) place name
Bond		110.6	1973	George Phillips Bond
Bonestell		42.4	1997	Chesley Bonestell
Bonneville		0.21	(informal)	Lake Bonneville
Boola		17.0	2006	Guinea place name
Bopolu		19.3	2006-09-14	Liberia place name
Bor		4.3	1976	Russia place name
Bordeaux		1.8	1979	Bordeaux, France
Boru		10.9	1976	Russia place name
Bouguer		107.0	1973	Pierre Bouguer
Boulia		10.5	1991	Australia (Queensland) place name
Bozkir		84.0	1976	Turkey place name
Brashear		79.0	1973	John Brashear
Bree		28.8	2014	Belgium place name
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	India place name
Bronkhorst		17.9	2006	Netherlands place name
Brush		6.4	1976	USA (Colorado) place name
Bulhar		18.7	1979	Somalia place name
Bunge		73.7	1979	Alexander Bunge
Burroughs		125.7	1973	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Burton		123.0	1973	Charles E. Burton
Buta		11.0	1979	Dem. Rep. Congo place name
Butte		13.0	1976	USA (Montana) place name
Byrd		126.8	1976	Richard E. Byrd
Byske		13.5	1976	Sweden place name

C

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Date approved	Named after
Cádiz		1.5	1979	Cadiz, Spain
Cairns		8.6	1976	Australia (Queensland) place name
Calahorra		35.2	1997	Spain place name
Calamar		7.2	1988	Colombia place name
Calbe		13.3	1976	Germany place name
Camargo		4.7	1988	Bolivia place name
Camichel		65.3	2012	Henri Camichel, French astronomer
Camiling		22.5	1976	Philippines place name
Camiri		26.4	1976	Bolivia place name
Campbell		129.0	1973	John W. Campbell and William Wallace Campbell
Campos		8.1	1976	Brazil place name
Can		8.4	1976	Turkey place name
Canala		12	2011	New Caledonia place name
Cañas		42.0	1991	Puerto Rico place name
Canaveral		3.3	1979	Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Canberra		3.0	1979	Canberra, Australia
Cangwu		14.0	1991	China place name
Canillo		35.0	2009	Andorra place name
Cankuzo		48.5	2010	Burundi place name
Canso		27.4	1988	Canada (Nova Scotia) place name
Cantoura		51.4	1988	Venezuela place name
Capen		70.0	2008	Charles F. Capen
Cardona		13.7	2015	Uruguay place name
Cartago		37.5	1976	Costa Rica place name
Cassini		412.0	1973	Giovanni Cassini
Castril		2.2	2006	Spain place name
Cave		8.4	1976	New Zealand place name
Caxias		25.4	1991	Brazil place name
Cayon		27.3	2012	Saint Kitts and Nevis place name
Cefalù		5.3	2006-09-14	Italy place name
Cerulli		130.0	1973	Vincenzo Cerulli
Chafe		4.8	1988	Nigeria place name
Chaman		48.1	2006-12-14	Pakistan place name
Chamberlin		120.4	1973	Thomas Chamberlin
Changsvông		35.0	1976	Korea place name
Chapais		37.4	1976	Canada (Quebec) place name
Charleston		1.5	1979	Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Charlier		113.1	1973	Carl Charlier
Charlieu		19.1	1991	France place name
Chatturat		8.2	1991	Chatturat District, Chaiyaphum, Thailand
Chauk		10.0	1976	Burma place name
Cheb		8.3	1976	Czech Republic place name
Chefu		11.5	1991	Mozambique place name
Chekalin		89.3	1976	Turkmenistan place name
Chia		96.0	1985	Spain place name
Chimbote		67.2	1976	Peru place name
Chincoteague		37.0	1979	USA (Virginia) place name
Chinju		66.6	1976	South Korea place name
Chinook		20.0	1976	Canada (Alberta) place name
Chive		9.0	1976	Bolivia place name
Choctaw		23.8	1976	USA (Ohio) place name
Chom		5.5	1976	Tibet place name
Choyr		536.4	2015	Mongolia place name
Chupadero		8.0	2006-09-14	USA (New Mexico) place name
Chur		4.3	1976	Russia place name
Circle		11.5	1976	USA (Montana) place name
Clark		98.0	1973	Alvan Clark
Clogh		11.1	1976	Ireland place name
Clova		7.7	1988	Canada (Quebec) place name
Cluny		14.8	1976	France place name
Cobalt		11.5	1976	USA (Connecticut) place name
Coblentz		112.0	1973	William Coblentz
Cobres		94.0	1985	Argentina place name
Coimbra		34.7	2008	Portugal place name
Cólon		2.0	1979	Colón, Panama
Columbus		119.0	1976	Christopher Columbus
Comas Sola		127.0	1973	Josep Comas Solà
Conches		21.2	1976	France place name
Concord		20.7	1976	USA (Massachusetts) place name
Cooma		17.3	1991	Australia (New South Wales) place name
Copernicus		294.0	1973	Nicolaus Copernicus
Corby		6.7	1979	England place name
Corinto		13.5	2008	El Salvador place name
Corozal		8.3	2011	Belize place name
Cost		11.6	1976	USA (Texas) place name
Cray		7.2	1976	England place name
Creel		9.3	1976	Mexico place name
Crewe		3.6	1976	Crewe, England, UK
Crivitz		6.1	2003	Germany place name
Crommelin		113.9	1973	Andrew Crommelin
Cross		67.5	2009	Charles Arthur Cross
Crotone		6.4	2006	Italy place name
Cruls		88.0	1973	Luis Cruls
Cruz		5.4	1976	Venezuela place name
Cue		10.7	1991	Western Australia place name
Culter		4.6	2006	Scotland place name
Curie		114.1	1973	Pierre Curie
Cypress		14.2	1976	USA (Illinois) place name

D

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Date approved	Named after
Da Vinci		100.2	1973	Leonardo da Vinci
Daan		12.5	1991	China place name
Daet		10.5	1976	Philippines place name
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	Oman place name
Darvel		22.0	1988	Scotland place name
Darwin		178.0	1973	Charles Darwin and George Darwin
Davies		49.2	2006	Merton Davies
Dawes		191.0	1973	William Rutter Dawes
de Vaucouleurs		293.0	2000	Gérard de Vaucouleurs
Deba		10.3	1976	Nigeria place name
Dein		26.0	1976	Papua New Guinea place name
Dejnev		156.0	1985	Semyon Dezhnev
Delta		8.1	1976	USA (Louisiana) place name
Denning		165.0	1973	William Frederick Denning
Dersu		6.6	1988	Russia place name
Dese		13.7	1976	Ethiopia place name
Deseado		10.2	1976	Argentina place name
Dessau		27.0	2006	Germany place name
Dia-Cau		29.7	1976	Vietnam place name
Dilly		1.3	2006	Mali place name
Dingo		16.0	1976	Australia (Queensland) place name
Dinorwic		55.8	1991	Canada (Ontario) place name
Dison		21.0	1976	Belgium place name
Dixie		28.7	1988	USA (Georgia) place name
Doba		26.3	2009	Chad place name
Dogana		41.2	2011	San Marino place name
Dokka		52.5	2006	Norway place name
Dokuchaev		78.0	1982	Vasily Dokuchaev
Dollfus		363.1	2013	Audouin Dollfus
Domoni		13.8	2012	Union of the Comoros place name
Doon		3.7	1988	Canada (Ontario) place name
Douglass		94.0	1973	Andrew E. Douglass
Dowa		42.0	2010	Malawi place name
Downe		28.0	2003	England place name
Dromore		14.8	1976	Ireland place name
Du Martheray		102.0	1973	Maurice du Martheray
Du Toit		83.0	1973	Alexander du Toit
Dubki		9.0	1979	Russia place name
Dukhan		34.0	2012	Qatar place name
Dulovo		18.8	2006-09-14	Bulgaria place name
Dunhuang		12.1	1991	China place name
Dunkassa		8.0	2012	Qatar place name
Dush		2.5	1988	Egypt place name
Dzeng		10.6	1991	Cameroon place name

E

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval date	Named after
Eads		2.3	1976	USA (Colorado) place name
Eagle		13.0	1976	Idaho place name
		0.03	(informal)	Spacecraft Eagle, Apollo 11
Eberswalde		65.3	2006	Germany place name
Echt		1.1	1976	Scotland place name
Edam		20.2	1976	Netherlands place name
Eddie		89.0	1973	Lindsay Eddie
Eger		13.0	1976	Hungary place name
Ehden		57.7	2009	Lebanon place name
Eil		5.7	1976	Somalia place name
Eilat		31.7	2006-12-14	Israel place name
Ejriksson		49.0	1967	Leif Ericson
Elath		13.2	1976	Israel place name
Elim		43.0	2006	South Africa place name
Ellsley		11.1	1991	England place name
Elorza		47.0	2006	Venezuela place name
Ely		10.3	1976	USA (Nevada) place name
Emma Dean		0.10	(informal)	John Powell's Boat, USA
Endeavour		22.5	2008	Canada (Saskatchewan) place name
Endurance		0.13	(informal)	HMS Endurance
Erebus		0.13	(informal)	HMS Erebus
Escalante		79.3	1973	F. Escalante
Escorial		22.7	1991	Spain place name
Esira		16.3	2014	Madagascar place name
Esk		3.9	1976	Australia (Queensland) place name
Espino		12.0	1991	Venezuela place name
Eudoxus		98.0	1973	Eudoxus of Cnidus
Evpatoriya		1.0	1979	Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine

F

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval date	Named after
Faith		5.8	1976	USA (South Dakota) place name
Falun		10.2	1976	Sweden place name
Fancy		49.4	2012	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines place name
Faqu		12.4	1991	Jordan place name
Farim		3.9	2013	Guinea-Bissau place name
Fastov		10.3	1976	Ukraine place name
Fenagh		6.3	1991	Ireland place name
Fesenkov		87.0	1973	Vasily Fesenkov
Firsoff		90	2010	Axel Firsoff
Fitzroy		38.0	2010	Falkland Islands place name
Flammarion		173.0	1973	Camille Flammarion
Flat		2.5	1976	USA (Alabama) place name
Flaugergues		245.0	1973	Honoré Flaugergues
Floq		2.2	1988	Albania place name
Flora		19.0	1976	USA (Mississippi) place name
Focas		76.5	1973	Jean Focas
Fontana		80.0	1973	Francesco Fontana
Foros		24.5	1979	Ukraine place name
Fournier		118.0	1973	Georges Fournier
Fram		0.01	(informal)	Fram
Freedom		12.9	1976	USA (Oklahoma) place name
Funchal		1.7	1979	Funchal, Madeira

G

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval date	Named after
Gaan		2.8	1976	Somalia place name
Gagra		13.3	1976	Georgia place name
Gah		2.7	1976	Indonesia place name
Galap		5.9	2009	Palau place name
Galdakao		35.0	2003	Galdakao, Basque Country, Spain
Gale		155.3	1991	Walter Gale
Gali		26.4	1976	Georgia place name
Galilaei		137.3	1973	Galileo Galilei
Galle		230.0	1973	Johann Gottfried Galle
Galu		12.5	1976	Dem. Rep. Congo place name
Gamboa		33.0	2006	Panama place name
Gan		20.6	2013	Maldives place name
Gander		38.0	1991	Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) place name
Gandu		8.8	1976	Brazil place name
Gandzani		54.8	1991	Georgia place name
Gardo		17.2	1976	Somalia place name
Gari		9.4	1979	Russia place name
Garm		5.0	1976	Tajikistan place name
Garni		2.57	2015-04-24	Armenia place name
Gasa		6.5	2009	Bhutan place name
Gastre		7.0	1976	Argentina place name
Gilbert		126.4	1973	Grove Karl Gilbert
Gill		83.0	1973	David Gill
Glazov		24.7	1976	Russia place name
Gledhill		82.5	1973	Joseph Gledhill
Glendore		8.0	1988	Ireland place name
Glide		10.5	1976	USA (Oregon) place name
Globe		51.7	1976	USA (Arizona) place name
Goba		10.8	1976	Ethiopia place name
Goff		7.9	1976	Somalia place name
Gol		9.6	1976	Norway place name
Gold		9.0	1976	USA (Pennsylvania) place name
Golden		20.2	1976	USA (Illinois) place name
Goldstone		1.0	1979	Goldstone Observatory, CA, USA
Gori		6.2	1979	Georgia place name
Graff		158.0	1973	Kasimir Graff
Gratteri		7.3	2006	Sicily place name
Greeley		457.45	2015	Ronald Greeley
Green		184.0	1973	Nathaniel E. Green
Greg		68.0	2010	Percy Greg
Grindavik		12.0	2006	Iceland place name
Gringauz		71.0	2013	Konstantin Gringauz
Grójec		38.5	1976	Poland place name
Groves		11.2	1976	USA (Texas) place name
Guaymas		20.0	1976	Mexico place name
Guir		18.9	1976	Mali place name
Gulch		8.2	1976	Ethiopia place name
Gunnison		40.8	2003	USA (Colorado) place name
Gusev		166.0	1976	Matvey Gusev
Gwash		4.7	1976	Pakistan place name

See also

• List of catenae on Mars
• List of craters on Mars
• List of mountains on Mars

External links

• USGS: Martian system nomenclature
• USGS: Mars Nomenclature: Craters